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Lord knows, I hope we'll be there before fall's over. I'm tired gallopin' round the world playin' we are dagoes, and givin' snake shows. But that ain't what I wanted to say. That there biggest snake's gone again. I've looked all over the car and can't find him. He must have been gone an hour. I remember hearin' somethin' rustlin' along the floor, but I thought it was you."
"Yes, I know." A quivering pain swept across the young girl's face. "Somehow, the war never seemed real to me before. 'T was jest somethin' 'way off a lot of Dagoes an' Dutchmen, like the men what dug up the McGuires' frozen water-pipes last spring, fightin'. Not our kind of folks what talked English.
Janet accosted her. "It's the strike," she explained excitedly, evidently surprised at the question. "The Polaks and the Dagoes and a lot of other foreigners quit when they got their envelopes stopped their looms and started through the mill, and when they came into our room I left. I didn't want no trouble with 'em. It's the fifty-four hour law their pay's cut two hours.
The other Englishman in the watch swore in a low grunt and dropped his broom, meeting the wondering eyes of the "Dutchmen" and "Dagoes" with a scowl. He was white-haired and red-faced, a veteran among the nomads of the sea, the oldest man aboard, and the only one in the port watch who had not felt the weight of the mate's fist.
"If they wasn't, what would they be comin' to the island for? There's no one here to visit or wouldn't be if this party of dagoes hadn't landed. The men in the launch are here to meet the others, and that's all there is to it. I'm goin' to see what their business is!"
They had worked together, taken the things out through the back alley, very quiet, very quick; the soldiers never saw them. He had driven across town to a North Beach wharf, hired a fishing smack, and with two Italians for crew, cast off and sailed about the bay for three days. "I stay on boat all time," he said. "My business mind your stuff. I watch out, no leave dagoes, no go sleep.
"But if he'd been attacked by thieves," argued Jack, "the police would have found something out before this. He could not have been hidden away from them." Buck shook his head. "Some o' these Dagoes are very sly and deep," he replied. "I've heard queer stories about 'em at times. They say there are brigands around."
He was a stranger and a foreigner, the dead man was, whose comings and goings made no great stir in the neighborhood, and whose failure to come again would be taken as a matter of course just one of those shiftless, wandering Dagoes, here today and gone tomorrow.
There were men who looked like dock laborers, seamen, and riverside loafers; lascars, Chinese, Arabs, and dagoes; and at the "solid" counter there presided a red-armed, brawny woman, fierce of mien and ready of tongue, while a huge Irishman, possessing a broken nose and deficient teeth, ruled the "liquid" department with a rod of iron and a flow of language which shocked even Kerry.
"No, he picked them up over on the China coast." "I thought so," Ned answered. "Now, what is the answer to that remark," asked Ben. "You'll get the answer directly," Ned replied. "Listen to the rattle of the alleged supplies when a box is thrown down hard!" "I was noticing that." "Sounds like guns?" asked Ned. "Yes, indeed, but why should the government be supplying the dagoes with guns?
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