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'I reckon you're a bit of a sportsman, I said, 'and I want you to do me a service. Lend me your cap and overall for ten minutes, and here's a sovereign for you. His eyes opened at the sight of the gold, and he grinned broadly. 'Wot's the gyme?'he asked. 'A bet, I said. 'I haven't time to explain, but to win it I've got to be a milkman for the next ten minutes.
"That's 'is gyme, Red do for all of us and 'ave the gold all to 'imself and no sailormen what know what 'e's been up to out 'ere coming around to tap on 'is window of a night when 'e's asleep and ask for the price of a drink, or 'e'll have the police down on 'im and tell Scotland Yard' e's the Devil's Hadmiral.
Look at me, Dyvis, there ain't any shilly-shally about me. I'm gyme, that's wot I am: gyme all through." The captain looked at him. Huish sat there preening his sinister vanity, glorying in his precedency in evil; and the villainous courage and readiness of the creature shone out of him like a candle from a lantern. Dismay and a kind of respect seized hold on Davis in his own despite.
Six weeks ago that was; an' every night since then it's bin the syme gyme. Never the blinds left up since that first time, but always light, and his shadow moves about. An' in my bed I wake a-cryin' so, an' don't know which of 'em I'm cryin' for the lonely shadow or the lonely man " She could not go on, and W. Keyse took up the tale. "She's told you true.
Then in a simple way he began to talk about his "missis," and what a good creature she was, and finally announced himself "gyme" to help a parson "as stood up to that there drunken blowke for sake of a woman." "What's your name?" said John. "Jupe," said the man, and then something stirred in John's memory. On the following day John Storm dined with his uncle at Downing Street.
'Mind when ye get a chance and 'ook a knife in his kidneys, and do it neat and clean; and then there'll be only three of us to cut this pile 'ere three ways me, Bucky, and yer own self, Jim. "That's what 'e said, Reddy; strike me blind! Like you did, I says I'll do it. Ye see his gyme? We'd do for each other in a fight, and so take the job off 's 'ands.
"I ain't wedded to this, if you think I am; I ain't ambitious; I don't make a point of playin' the lead; I offer to, that's all, and if you can't show me better, by Gawd, I'm goin' to!" "Then the risk!" cried Davis. "If you ast me straight, I should say it was a case of seven to one, and no takers," said Huish. "But that's my look-out, ducky, and I'm gyme.
"I am as well as ever," he said, as soon as he could draw breath. Donkin made a derisive gesture. "In course," he said, profoundly, "any one can see that." "They don't," said Jimmy, gasping like a fish. "They would swallow any yarn," affirmed Donkin. "Don't you let on too much," admonished Jimmy in an exhausted voice. "Your little gyme? Eh?" commented Donkin, jovially.
And the skins o' sea-otters are selling this very day for seventy dollars at any port in China." "I s'y," piped up Ally Bazan, "I knows a bit about that gyme. They's a bally kind o' Lum-tums among them Chinese as sports those syme skins on their bally clothes as a mark o' rank, d'ye see." "Have you figured at all on the proposition, Cap'n?" inquired Hardenberg.
'I ain't wedded to this, if you think I am; I ain't ambitious; I don't make a point of playin' the lead; I offer to, that's all, and if you can't show me better, by Gawd, I'm goin' to! 'Then the risk! cried Davis. 'If you ast me straight, I should say it was a case of seven to one and no takers, said Huish. 'But that's my look-out, ducky, and I'm gyme, that's wot I am: gyme all through.
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