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He reached Cleek and laid a timid hand upon the detective's arm. Then he bent his face close to Cleek's ear. "Well, I've an inklin' that I'm well on to the untyin' of it, s'help me if I ain't!" he whispered in highly melodramatic tones. Cleek laughed, but looked interested at once, while Mr. Narkom prepared to give his best attention to what the lad had to say.
"Lor', Tom," said Larrikins to me, expressing the current feeling of all on board the Mermaid, "I'd die happy, s'help me, if I could only pot that there bloomin' Arab thief Abdalah, him we see'd shoot poor little Dabby.
"I've took a 'eap o' trouble to find yer," she said. "An' now I've done it, all depends on our gettin' out o' this. Ain't there no way? Do try to think a bit!" The boy shook his head. "There isn't any way. You let me alone, and clear." "He can't do worse'n kill us," said Tilda desperately, with a look back at the house. "S'help me, let's try!" But her spirit quailed. "He won't kill you.
As he spoke Shandy looked hastily about to see that no one was listening, then he continued: "If you give me the double cross an' peach, I'll split yer head open." His small eyes blazed with venomous fury. "Besides, it won't do no good, my word's as good as yours. But I'll give you the hundred, s'help me God! I will, if you don't ride the Chestnut out.
'I thought he would tack round, the captain said, staggering towards us with a gait which showed that he had made the rum bottle his companion since we had left him. 'S'help me, I was sure of it! Though, by the Mass, I don't wonder that he thought twice before leaving the Dorothy Fox, for she is fitted up fit for a duchess, s'help me! Where is your boat?
An' they won't be no workin' a livin' soul after six P.M. You hear me talk! They'll be machinery enough an' hands enough to do it all in decent workin' hours, an' Mart, s'help me, I'll make yeh superintendent of the shebang the whole of it, all of it. Now here's the scheme. I get on the water-wagon an' save my money for two years save an' then "
"The boat's all right," said one; and I heard him jump down upon the shingle. It seemed to me that I knew his voice. "Here, pass down the blamed thing . . . d n it all, man!" "I can't!" whimpered the other. "S'help me, Bill, I can't. . . . I'm not used to it, and I ain't got the nerve." "Nerve? An' you call yourself a seaman! An' a plucky lot you boasted the night we signed articles. . . . Nerve?
The cabby had a foot upon the step when Kirkwood tapped his shoulder. "My man " "Lor, lumme!" cried the fellow in amaze, pivoting on his heel. Cupidity and quick understanding enlivened the eyes which in two glances looked Kirkwood up and down, comprehending at once both his badly rumpled hat and patent-leather shoes. "S'help me," thickly, "where'd you drop from, guvner?"
'Oh! You are, are you? sez I. 'Colonel nor no Colonel, you waits 'ere till I'm relieved, an' the Sarjint reports on your ugly old mug. Coop! sez I. . . . . . . . . . An' s'help me soul, 'twas the Colonel after all! But I was a recruity then." The Unedited Autobiography of Private Ortheris.
We kept on our course a day and a half, and at last we sighted the real Peak, and anchored off the port; whereby, when we saw Teneriffe Peak in the sky to winnard, she lay a hundred leagues to board, s'help me God!" "That is wonderful," said General Rolleston. "That will do, Isaac," said the captain. "Mr. Butt, double his grog for a week, for having seen more than I have."
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