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Ling observed the motion, and shrank back guiltily. "Oh, mastel," he quavered, "me thinkee me heal a sound ovel hele fol me too flightened to sleep and me come hele to see what the mattel." "What kind of sound did you think you heard?" queried Frobisher, looking the man square in the eyes. Ling tried to return the gaze, but failed.
"Me no shabbee Pilat INSIDE housee; me shabbee Pilat OUTSIDE housee. S'pose you lun away longside Chinee boy Chinee boy make you Pilat." Hickory softly scratched his leg; while a broad, bashful smile almost closed his small eyes. "Wot?" he asked. "Mebbe you too flightened to lun away. Melican boy's papa heap lickee." This last infamous suggestion fired the corsair's blood.
"Me no flightened," protested Wang raucously, throwing up his head which gave to his throat a more strained, anxious appearance than ever. "Me no likee," he added in a quieter tone. "Me velly sick." He put his hand over the region under the breast-bone. "That," said Heyst, serenely positive, "belong one piecee lie. That isn't proper man-talk at all. And after stealing my revolver, too!"
Why, if he'd had a toofache, a course he'd have held his head down like this and he'd have put a lot of warm blankets round it!" "If he'd had any blankets," Sylvie argued. "Course he had blankets!" retorted her brother. "Doos oo think Crocodiles goes walks wizout blankets? And he frowned with his eyebrows. And the Goat was welly flightened at his eyebrows!"
"Funny, Chung?" queried Dawson, observing for the first time that the Chinaman's queue stood up as straight as a garden stake, and almost scraped the ceiling as its owner moved about. "Funny?" "Yeppee, flunny," returned Chung, with a shiver. "Me no likee. Me flightened." "Oh, come!" said Dawson, with an affected lightness. "What are you afraid of?" "Slumting," said Chung. "Do' know what.
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