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"D'yuh s'pose I'd foller a man's trail as fur as that, if everything didn't tally face, eyes, nose, height, build, clo'es, hat, brown paper parcel, everything?" "Then it's simply marvellous," said Larcher, with genuine astonishment, "how you managed to get on his track, and to follow it from place to place." "Oh, it's my business to know how to do them things," replied Mr. Lafferty, deprecatingly.
'I do, says I. 'Why, he says, 'the platform has been adopted, he says. 'Whin? says I. 'Befure ye were born, says he. 'In th' reign iv Bildad th' first, says he he was a larned man, was Lafferty, though a dhrinkin' man. All sicreties iv pollyticians not in office is dhrinkin' men, Hinnissy. 'Ive got th' copy iv it here in me pocket, he says.
"Oh! he must go on the cross, I expect, but Badger is able to work. He's a very good 'buzzer, is Lafferty, mind you, and he might do very well out there." "Well, the time's up Ned, I suppose you'll be going up to the 'farm' to-night, and we sha'n't see you again. Well, old fellow, take care of old Tommy's black draughts, and look after yourself when you get out. Good-bye."
The cab's so full o' his parcels now, he's only got just room fur himself on the back seat. An' then he has the hackman drive to a place away down-town." Mr. Lafferty paused for a moment to wet his throat with brandy and water.
On being introduced to Larcher as Mr. Lafferty, he uttered a quick "Howdy," with a jerk of the head, and lapsed into a mute regard of tobacco smoke and brandy bottle, which he maintained while Bagley and Larcher went more fully into the Davenport case than they had before gone together.
"I don't know nothin' about him, and I won't tell nothin' either." "But he was here this morning, Mr. Lafferty?" "Not that I know of. I won't say nothin' more about him. It's as bad as lying you are with that d d artful way of entrapping a fellow." Here Terry Carroll, Pat's brother, entered the cabin, and took off his hat, with an air of great courtesy. "More power to you, Mr.
I'm satisfied you've told all you know, and though that's absolutely nothing at all ain't that so, Lafferty?" "Yep, nothin' 'tall." "Though it's nothing at all, a fair exchange is no robbery, and I'm willing for you to know as much as I do. The knowledge won't do you any good it hasn't done me any good but it'll give you an insight into your friend Davenport.
"Threw down the outfit in a row they had with the Lafferty crowd, didn't he?" asked Denver. Frisco nodded. Mac got up, glanced round, and reached for his hat. "I reckon I'll have to be going," he said, and forthright departed. Reddy reached for HIS hat and rose. "I got to go and have a talk with Mac," he explained. Denver got to the door first and his big frame filled it. "Don't hurry, Reddy.
'Th' boss give it to me to bring it up to date, he says. 'They was no sthrike last year an' we've got to put a sthrike plank in th' platform or put th' prisident iv th' Lumber Shovers' union on th' county board, an', he says, 'they ain't room, he says. "'Why, says Lafferty, 'ye ought to know th' histhry iv platforms, he says. An' he give it to me, an' I'll give it to ye.
Then you and his other friends, if he's got any, won't roast me because I claim that he flew the coop and not that somebody did him for the money. See?" "Not exactly." "All right; then we'll open your eyes. I guess you don't happen to know who Mr. Lafferty here is, do you?" "Not yet." "Well, he's a central office detective." He'll tell you how far he traced him. It's up to you now, Lafferty.
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