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En route to his taciturn and, not to put too fine a point on it, not yet perfectly sober companion Mr Bloom who at all events was in complete possession of his faculties, never more so, in fact disgustingly sober, spoke a word of caution re the dangers of nighttown, women of ill fame and swell mobsmen, which, barely permissible once in a while though not as a habitual practice, was of the nature of a regular deathtrap for young fellows of his age particularly if they had acquired drinking habits under the influence of liquor unless you knew a little jiujitsu for every contingency as even a fellow on the broad of his back could administer a nasty kick if you didn't look out.
Last night, however, I was out on duty I haven't had time to go home and change my clothes yet in a pretty bad part, shadowing one of the most dangerous swell mobsmen in Europe a man you may have heard of, sir. He is commonly known as Dagger Rodwell." I hastily disclaimed any acquaintance with the person in question. "Tell me, though," I begged, "what this has to do with Mr. Bundercombe?"
It is obvious that, if the plot existed, one of two things ought to occur on the morning of February 23, viz.: either the plotters and the mobsmen should know that Mr. Lincoln had escaped them, or else they should be at the station at the hour set for his arrival. In fact they were not at the station; there was no sudden assault on the cars, nor other indication of assassins and a mob.
And this being done without delay, the policeman ordered the swell mobsmen to stand back until the distinguished politician had presented his congratulations, which he did, adding that he had long been familiar with the potency of the major's greatness, which the city, unlike other cities, was always ready to honor.
The early train leaves the station in question at 6.20 A.M.; and that fine spring morning there was a police officer in a peaked cap to see it off; but he was too busy peering into the compartments for a pair of very swell mobsmen that he took no notice of the huge man in riding-clothes, who was obviously intoxicated, or the more insignificant but not less horsy character who had him in hand.
"Eases his right foot, and has his boots made to order." "It is very odd," I remarked aloud to Mrs. Stott. "That it is, sir," she answered; adding, "I hope to gracious none of them mobsmen are going to come burglaring here!" "Pooh!" I replied; "there is nothing for them to steal, except chairs and tables, and I don't think one man could carry many of them away."
"Here in your rooms, Mr. A.J. Raffles." "Well, Bunny," said Raffles, "I suppose we must both plead guilty to a hair of the jolly dog that bit him eh?" "You know what I mean," our visitor ground out through his teeth. "You're cracksmen, magsmen, mobsmen, the two of you; so you may as well both own up to it." "Cracksmen? Magsmen? Mobsmen?" repeated Raffles, with his head on one side.
I say, then, that when the cattle and the major reached the door of this spacious pile of white marble, wherein cheap luxury awaits the million, it was near sundown, and the only persons standing at the grand entrance, were those eight or ten bediamonded gentlemen who carry on their occupation in suspicious places, and are commonly called swell mobsmen, though judging from the air and circumstance with which they occupy the great entrance to the great St.
My French chief gave me a letter to the chief, and I was taken on at once, for, talking as I do half a dozen languages, and being acquainted with most of the swell mobsmen of Paris, I was just the man who happened to be wanted here at the time. Since I came over I have done a good deal in the way of breaking up hells where sailors and others are plundered.
"He must have forced it or else picked the lock." "Why not, Bunny? Love isn't the only thing that laughs at locksmiths," remarked Raffles with exasperating geniality. "Neither are swell mobsmen!" cried Dan Levy, not more ironically than Raffles, only with a heavier type of irony. Raffles conducted him to a chair.
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