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In the back of the room a stout man in a fur overcoat arose. It was Shultberger. He came down the aisle. As he did so, unnoticed by Officer 4434, three of Shultberger's companions arose and quietly left the courtroom by the front entrance. "Oxcuse me, Chudge, but may I offer bail for my friend, little Jimmie?"
If thet is yer means o' communication with ther other side o' ther river, oxcuse me." "Why, what's the matter with that? That's a mighty fine car." "I reckon it is, but walkin's good ernuf fer me." "But you'll never walk away from that shadow." "I'll bet I kin run erway from 'his checkers' before we're halfway ter St.
"Bud I don'd like dot peesness uf sdanding oop to be shod ad mit a pullet oudt uf a bistol. Somepody mighd ged hurt, ain'd id?" "Oh, there's no danger that you'll get hurt any more than to have a bullet through your head." "Vot vos dot?" gurgled Hans. "A pullet drough mein headt. Shimminy Gristmas! Uf dot don'd vas pad enough, vot you vant? Oxcuse me!"
"Then I suppose your father and mother will be satisfied." "Yaw but holds on!" he added, looking down at his clothing; "I have torn my trowsers shust a little, and dot will gif dem de oxcuse to whip me."
"By the way, Hans," said Frank, "do you know that the fellow who used to have this room committed suicide here?" "Shimminy Gristmas!" gurgled the Dutch boy. "You don'd say dot!" "Yes, I do, and the room is said to be haunted by his spook, which cannot rest in its grave." "Vell, dot vos nice! Oxcuse me while I haf a chill!"
'All right! all right! gentlemens, he replied, and then, fearing that he had not quite squared himself, turned back, at the kitchen door, and added, 'Oxcuse me. McClingan looked at him with that leering superior smile of his, and gave him just the slightest possible nod of his head. McClingan came into my room with me awhile then.
"You gum to mine blace and bay me to-morrow, Mr. Morley," said Bergman. "Oxcuse me dat I dun you on der street. But I haf not seen you in dree mont'. Pros't!" Morley walked away with a crooked smile on his pale, smooth face. The credulous, drink-softened German amused him. He would have to avoid Twenty-ninth street in the future. He had not been aware that Bergman ever went home by that route.
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