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The boy came pattering up at a quarter to six. "He come. He downside. I go, he come top-side?" "No. That will be all." The boy kotowed, and Elsa gave him a sovereign. The following ten minutes tested her patience to the utmost. Presently she heard the banging of a trunk-lid. He was there.
He'd green eyes, an' I could niver get shut o' them eyes choose what I were doin'. Well, after a while it faired up, and I set off for my garden. When I gat nigh I were fair capped. I'd set t' potate at t' top-side o' t' 'lotment, and theer, just wheer I'd set it, were a pig-sty, wi' a pig inside it fit to kill. I were that flustered you could ha' knocked me down wi' a feather.
Washee him piecie pants, chow-chow top-side see, John?" With his mouth and hands he made exuberant motions of eating rice and washing clothes; and the Chinaman, who concealed his distrust of this pantomime under a collected demeanour tinged by a gentle and refined melancholy, glanced out of his almond eyes from Jukes to the hatch and back again.
The Chinaman, in greeting, bowed and scraped and smiled and shook hands with himself cordially. "Hulloa, Ping Pong! Is supper ready?" called Hippy jovially. "Him come along, top-side piecee Heaven pidgin man," answered the Chinaman without an instant's hesitation, which, being freely translated, meant, "Supper is ready, high Heaven-born man."
Finally, I decided that it must be a plaintive and exceedingly trustful appeal to the good nature of urchins who might be tempted to ring and run away. A smiling young Chinaman presently opened the door to me, and said: 'You come top-side alonga me, pease; Mr. Lollance he's in. So I walked upstairs behind the silent, felt-shod Asiatic, and wondered what was coming next.
The sunshine slanted in through the open door, and not a moat of dust danced in the rays, for nothing had been disturbed for some time, and the dust was settled. They went top-side, into the lofts. The same thoroughness presented itself. Everything had been cleared out, absolutely. "Stolen!" exclaimed Withers. "Clean-sweep!" said the shroff, in his mission-school English.
"There goes that crazy Chinaman again. I hope he chokes." "He will if he keeps his mouth open much longer." Ping had broken out in song, which the wind was not yet strong enough to smother. "Sometim' you look-see piece sand he walkee mountain high, Jist t'hen wind knock top-side off an' blow 'um up to sky. Jist so my heart walk up inside befo' he sinkee down "
Neither he nor I, however, gave any sign of recognition other than an imperceptible movement of the outer eyelid. The connection between these two events I am unfortunately not at liberty to explain; the consequences to the Vatican would be too serious. I doubt if it could remain top-side up. These, however, are but passing incidents in a life filled with danger and excitement.
"Part of his game if that theory's right," murmured Mitchington. "It mayn't be right," said Jettison. "But it's one. And there's another supposing he paid Collishaw that money on behalf of somebody else? I've thought this business out right and left, top-side and bottom-side, and hang me if I don't feel certain there is somebody else!
"No can do," grinned the Chinaman. "HAI YAH! Man b'longey top-side horse," he cried, pointing off over the desert. Looking in the direction in which he was pointing, the Overland girls saw in the far distance a horseman, sitting his mount so motionless that at first they were not positive whether it were a horseman or a distorted cactus plant.
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