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"I'm down 'ere now on special work," he ses, "looking arter sailormen." "Wot ha' they been doing?" ses Sam. "When I say looking arter, I mean protecting 'em," ses the tec. "Over and over agin some pore feller, arter working 'ard for months at sea, comes 'ome with a few pounds in 'is pocket and gets robbed of the lot.
"They'll have to send someone to watch, especially if they think I'm a 'tec, who's found Peterson's body. They won't know what I'm like. All the same, if they don't call me up in just one minute more, I must make a bolt. I'll count sixty, and see what happens." What happened was that the telephone began ringing in the next room Peterson's room. It began when Clo had counted up to forty.
All Ireland quaked; there was a druidic storm under bright stars; the buildings rocked; a brazen clangour sounded from the Tec Brac; there were mighty tramplings and cries and a four-footed thunder of giant hoofs, and they went round Ireland three times, only the third time swifter and like a hurricane of sound. Cuculain was abroad that night.
"He said, 'She she's a lady detective," stammered Mrs. Jobling, putting her handkerchief to her unruly mouth. "A tec!" repeated her husband. "A lady tec?" Mrs. Jobling nodded. "Yes, Bill. She she she " "Well?" said Mr. Jobling, in exasperation. "She's being employed by Gingell and Watson," said his wife. Mr.
Each was eager to question the other, but Elkin opened fire. "Anything fresh?" he cried. "You have a fair course now, Robinson. That little London 'tec has bunked home." "Has he?" In the language of the ring, Robinson thought fit to spar for an opening. "Oh, none of your kiddin'," said Elkin, stroking the nervous colt's neck. "You know he has. You don't miss much that's going on.
"The very thing," says the tec. "Well, to-morrow night you put that in your pocket, and be walking up Tower Hill just as the clock strikes nine. I promise you you'll be robbed afore two minutes past, and by two and a 'arf past I shall 'ave my hands on both of 'em. Have all the money in one pocket, so as they can get it neat and quick, in case they get interrupted.
"It's the piece headed, 'Our Special Investigator. You see, they've started a special investigator of their own, and he's got hold of a lot of little facts the police seem to have overlooked. The man who writes all that I mean the Special Investigator was a famous 'tec in his time, and he's just come back out of his retirement o' purpose to do this bit of work for the paper.
Rough play may have been in the mind of the card-playing, spirit-drinking scoundrels that occupied the other seats in the compartment, but Vivie in her man's dress created a certain amount of suspicion and caution. "Look's like a 'tec," one man whispered to another.
Lord knows who the other chap was and what he was asking questions for, but this one was a 'tec, straight. Joe Forman, he was in to-day looking after my place, for I'd given a month's notice, and he says to me, 'You see that big chap? meaning him as had been asking me the questions and I says 'Yes! and he says, 'That's a 'tee.
But that ain't all; if you lads kin git ol' Eddy's son out o' the air on this contraption you're makin' an' hear him talk fer sure, I'm goin' to see to it that you kin git all the tec tec what you call it? eddication there is goin' an' I'm goin' to put Perfesser Gray wise on that, too, soon's he comes back. No don't you say a word now.
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