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"'E was in the syl-locker mykin' hup to 'er," the speaker said, "an' tellin' as 'ow 'e'd lead the crew arft, and kill the hofficers, and tyke charge 'imself. That's wot 'e says, s' 'elp me!" "Ah, yes, he was making up to her, eh? And plotting mutiny? And my wife lent herself to such a scheme, did she?" This came in Swope's voice, soft, purring, the very tone an insult.
"Shut yer bloomin' face," growled Buckrow. "What if I did miss him? It was you that spoiled my aim, falling against the lashings as ye did, so the blasted thing carried away with me and like to mashed my head. What, with a fall like that. Dropped my gun, too, and it's broke or jammed." "Likewise I couldn't 'elp it," said Long Jim. "Caught my blasted foot in a lashin' rotten sailcloth, that, Bucky.
I've been a danged fule!" he said, more as if speaking his thoughts aloud than addressing me, "but a man can't help lovin' a lass like Prue, and when 'e loves 'e can't 'elp hopin'. I've hoped these three years an' more, and last night she called me coward."
When I first come 'ome an' it seemed as if I was goin' to be swep' away in the dirt o' the street one day when I was near drove wild with cold an' 'unger, I set down on the floor an' I dragged the Bible to me an' I ses: 'There ain't nothin' on earth or in 'ell as 'll 'elp me.
I remembered a conversation I 'ad with a chap about American corn. He wouldn't 'ear of the Government taxing corn to 'elp the British farmer. Well, that conversation came back to me as clear as if the dawn had begun to break. I could positively see the bloody corn; I could pretty well 'ave counted it.
'Might I have a word, sir, if you are at leisure? 'Well, Keggs? 'Miss Elsa, sir. 'Yes? Kegg's voice took on a sympathetic softness. 'It was not my place, sir, to make any remark while in the dining-room, but I could not 'elp but hoverhear the conversation. I gathered from remarks that was passed that you was somewhat hat a loss to account for Miss Elsa's non-appearance, sir.
"You damned villain!" "He was dead when I come in the room, gentlemen," said the prisoner, strenuously. "He was on the floor dead, and when I see 'im, I tried to get out. S' 'elp me he was. You heard me call out, sir. I shouldn't ha' called out if I'd killed him." "All right," said the sergeant, gruffly; "you'd better hold your tongue, you know." "You keep quiet," urged the constable.
The English origin of the overseer was revealed by his looks and in his speech. "Scipio, 'ave you 'oed the corn?" "No, boss, but I's jes' gwine to ten' to it right away." "Well, make 'aste. Daniel and Ransom can 'elp you, and tell Honest Moses to get the south patch ready for the watermelon seed."
"I don't know much about that, Mr. Hart," said Tyrrwhit. "Circumstances is different. I can't 'elp whether you know it or not." "How different?" "They is different, and that's all about it. It'll perhaps shuit you and them other shentlemen to take a pershentage." "It won't suit Evans & Crooke," said the man who represented that firm. "But perhaps Messrs.
We 'ad a bit of a row, and I came out 'ere it was just such another day as this and I thought it all out. Then I went back and pitched into them." "You did?" "I did. I was mad, I can tell you. I wasn't going to 'it 'er if I could 'elp it, so I went back and licked into this chap, just to show 'er what I could do. 'E was a big chap, too.
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