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As he said to Major Scrotton, with whom he lunched at the Iseeum: "That little Jew boy, Nathans, had given him the tip. He didn't care a cursh. He wash in a mucker. If it didn't come up well then, damme, the old man would have to pay!" A bottle of Pol Roger to his own cheek had given him a new contempt for James. It came up. Concertina was squeezed home by her neck a terrible squeak!
Then, half a mile ahead, the car stopped, turned, and came slowly back toward the wondering Gridley boys. Five rather contemptuous pairs of youthful eyes surveyed Dick & Co. as their outfit plodded on its way. "Aren't they a mucker looking outfit?" demanded one voice from the car. Then the automobile shot ahead again. "Phin Drayne! Humph!" said Darry rather scornfully.
Someone is coming along this other trail to the right of us," and as he spoke he dragged the mucker down beside him. For a moment they crouched, breathless and expectant, and then the slim figure of an almost nude boy emerged from the foliage close beside and entered the trail toward the village. Upon his head he bore a bundle of firewood.
Down by the salvage Theriere, Byrne, Bony Sawyer, Red Sanders, Blanco, and Wison were selecting the goods that they wished to carry with them. It was found that two trips would be necessary to carry off the bulk of the rations, so Theriere sent the mucker to summon Miller and Swenson.
I'll go in, and maybe I can challenge those fellows to swim down the pond that will take them away from this point." Ted's face had flushed sullenly at Hi's remark about "mucker schools." At another time Teall might have been ready to fight over a slighting word like that. Just now, however, he craved help against Prescott more than anything else. "All right," urged Ted.
Now she not only showed that she was frightened she had admitted it, and it gave the mucker no pleasure on the contrary it made him unaccountably uncomfortable. And then came the last straw tears welled to those lovely eyes. A choking sob wracked the girl's frame "And just when I was learning to trust you so!" she cried.
"If they'd only swim away for a little stretch!" whispered Ted. "I see," nodded Hi Martin rather pompously. "Too bad, isn't it? Now, Teall, you and Prescott both come from mucker schools, and I don't know that I ought to butt in any. But I don't mind seeing you torment Prescott a bit. You wait.
Cautiously he opened it until a narrow crack gave him a view of the dimly lighted chamber beyond. Within all seemed asleep. The mucker pushed the door still further open and stepped within so must he search every hut within the village until he had found those he sought?
It'll fool 'em into thinking that we're all here, and cover your escape. See?" "I won't do it," said Mallory. "Yes you will," replied the mucker. "It's not any of us that counts it's Miss Harding. As many as can have got to get back to her just as quick as the Lord'll let us. I can't, so you two'll have to. I'm done for a blind man could see that.
I believe her set referred to me as a 'mucker. At least, the fellows of her set did. So I shall send Miss Deane a brief note of regret." Dick continued to examine his mail while carrying on a running fire of talk with his proud and happy mother. "Oh, here is a very nice note from Susie Sharp," he murmured, opening another epistle.
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