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"And you'll not touch another drop to-night?" said Dodge, as they crossed over to the line of taxi-cabs. George halted. "Say, what's on your mind, Simmy? Are you afraid I'll go off my nut and create a scene,—perhaps mop up the sidewalk with some one like Percy Wintermill or—well, any one of those nuts in there? That the idea you've got? Well, let me set you right, my boy.
"You want me to buy the papers from you, eh?" said Andrew Felps, after a pause. "Yes," answered Lush Barrock, boldly. "Don't you know that you have no right to the documents?" "Oh, I don't want you to preach to me, Andy Felps. If you want the papers, say so. If not " "If not, what?" "Maybe I'll return them to the Barnaby folks. I understand Mr. Dodge offered a reward for them."
He resumed his watch at the little hole that he had drilled beside the weight-bowed jamb of the door in the earth front of their refuge. She sat silent in her dark corner across from him, only now and then shaking her glove at the horses when one of them pricked up his ears and shewed a desire to dodge out into the sunlight and pleasant grazing spread on the hillside.
After a walk that was only a few yards in distance, yet seemed only less than a mile in length, the humiliated pair rushed up the steps, opened the great door and let themselves in. At recess neither Bayliss nor Dodge had the courage to appear outside. As they left school that afternoon they were treated to the same dose of "silence."
When he passed along his decks he shouldered those he came across brutally; but the Malay deck hands had learned to dodge out of his way. He had to bring himself to tolerate them because of the necessary manual labor of the ship which must be done. He had to struggle and plan and scheme to keep the Sofala afloat and what did he get for it? Not even enough respect.
"She's tacking so as to come close aboard of us," declared Tom. "Shall I shift the course, Jack?" he inquired. "I don't think so," answered Jack. "Of course under the pilot rules of the United States, a power boat under way must keep clear of a sailing vessel. She has the right of way and seems to be taking it. But we can easily dodge her with our powerful engines."
He had resolutely refused to consider it up to now, but he no longer could dodge it. He had come to Washington to catch the criminal. But he also had come with the subconscious plan of getting at anything that would help Withers. He stood for an instant, jangling the room key in his hand. A frown drew his brows together. The frown deepened.
Why I was afraid of him I did not know, he seemed so easy-going, so careless almost sweet, like a woman; but then I had seen his face once with a look that I could never forget. "Wal, Ken, I'll dodge Greaser if he ever crosses my trail again." That promise was a relief.
I gave him an extra shilling at Braendhagen for his lively spirit, at which he grinned all over wider than ever, put the small change in his pocket, and with his red night-cap in one hand made a dodge of his head at me, as if snapping at a fly, and then held out his spare hand to give me a shake. Of course I shook hands with him.
He was the bearer of letters from my husband, informing me that General Dodge was then with him at Port Winnebago, that Generals Henry and Alexander were likewise at the Fort, and that as soon as they had recruited their men and horses, which were pretty well worn out with scouring the country after Black Hawk, they would march again in pursuit of him towards the head-waters of the Rock River, where they had every reason, from information lately brought in by the Winnebagoes, to believe he would be found.
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