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I should like to remind you that we are here, as it were, under a flag of truce. To pull a gun on us and keep us holding our hands up this way is raw work. I feel sure I speak for my friend Mr MacGinnis. He cocked an eye at his friend Mr MacGinnis, who seconded the motion by expectorating into the fireplace.
'He ain't got no gun, he announced gloomily. 'Den youse can put 'em down, said Mr MacGinnis. 'Thanks, I said. 'Lefty, youse stay here and look after dese kids. Get a move on, Sam. We left the room, a little procession of two, myself leading, Buck in my immediate rear administering occasional cautionary prods with the faithful 'canister'.
With these thoughts in my mind, I answered Sam pleasantly but firmly. 'I'm sorry I'm unpopular, but all the same I indicated the door. Emotion that could only be expressed in words and not through his usual medium welled up in Mr MacGinnis. He sprang forward with a snarl, falling back as my faithful automatic caught his eye. 'Say, you! Listen here! You'll
'As you have, no doubt, gathered, Mr MacGinnis and I have gone into partnership. The Little Nugget Combine! 'I gathered that well? 'Judicious partnerships are the soul of business. Mr MacGinnis and I have been rivals in the past, but we both saw that the moment had come for the genial smile, the hearty handshake, in fact, for an alliance. We form a strong team, sonny.
He's tried often enough before, but we've been too smart for him. This time he allows he's going to bring it off. 'Then why haven't we seen anything of him? Buck MacGinnis seems to be monopolizing the kidnapping industry in these parts. 'Oh, Sam'll show up when he feels good and ready. You can take it from me that Sam knows what he is doing. Sam's a special pet of mine.
'He tried to kidnap Ogden in 1906, when we were in New York. At least, the police put it down to him, though they could prove nothing. Then there was a horrible man, the police said he was called Buck MacGinnis. He tried in 1907. That was in Chicago. 'Good gracious! Kidnapping Ogden seems to be as popular as football. And I thought I was a pioneer!
And when dat guy talks like a dude, like they all say you do, well, who's it going to be if it ain't youse? So quit yer kiddin', Sam, and let's get down to business. 'Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr Buck MacGinnis? I said. I felt convinced that this could be no other than that celebrity. 'Dat's right. Dere's no need to keep up anyt'ing wit me, Sam.
'You must certainly come on the yacht. 'I'll tell Peter to come straight round here now, said Cynthia simply. She went to the telephone. Part Two In which other interested parties, notably one Buck MacGinnis and a trade rival, Smooth Sam Fisher, make other plans for the Nugget's future. Of stirring times at a private school for young gentlemen. Of stratagems, spoils, and alarms by night.
Everything connected with it must be done with exaggerated discretion. I do not suppose Mr MacGinnis had thought the thing out in all its bearings, but he could not have made a sounder move if he had been a Napoleon. Where the owner of an ordinary country-house raided by masked men can raise the countryside in pursuit, a schoolmaster must do precisely the opposite.
I don't want to talk to you, Mr Fisher. I don't like you, and I don't like your way of earning your living. Buck MacGinnis was bad enough, but at least he was a straightforward tough. There's no excuse for you. 'Surely we are unusually righteous this p.m., are we not? said Sam suavely. I did not answer. 'Is this not mere professional jealousy? This was too much for me.
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