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His eyes were glued to a lady sitting at the next table. "You got to come to Paris to see 'em, Abe," he murmured. "They don't make 'em like that in America." "We make as good garments in America as anywhere," Abe protested. "Garments I ain't talking about at all," Moe whispered hoarsely; "I mean peaches. Did y'ever see anything like that lady there sitting next to you? Look at the get-up, Abe.
"Well, then, here's a feller answers by the name Mozart Rabiner," Morris continued. "Did y'ever hear of him, Abe?" "If you mean Moe Rabiner, Mawruss," Abe replied. "I never knew his name was Mozart before, Mawruss, but there was a feller by the name Moe Rabiner what used to work for Sammet Brothers, Mawruss, and that feller could make the pianner fairly talk, Mawruss.
Then he took the envelope, blew it wide open, and shook it up and down, but no check fell out. "Did y'ever see the like?" he exclaimed. "Sends us a letter and no check!" "Why, it ain't a letter," Morris said. "It's an advertisement." Abe's face grew white. "A meeting of creditors!" he gasped. Morris grabbed the missive from his partner and spread it out on the table.
"Best speech y'ever heard," Gohawk interjected; "just emptied the words out, split 'em like peas, by gol! till he got to one place right before the end. Then he pulled up sudden, and it got so quiet you could 'a heard a pin drop. 'Gen'lemen of the jury, says Freddy Tarlton here gen'lemen, by gol! all that lot Lagan and the rest!
"'D'know 'bout zat, says Frenchy, only he says it in his lingo, 'but she was one vair cute li'l gal. "'Han'some as a picter, I tol' him; 'an' cutes' little tyke y'ever see." "How is Mother?" asked Helen constrainedly. "Ma's lottin' on havin' ye home; wants t' hear all 'bout the good times. School done? All packed and ready for a start, ain't ye? But ye don't seem to be feeling any too good.
"Best speech y'ever heard," Gohawk interjected; "just emptied the words out, split 'em like peas, by gol! till he got to one place right before the end. Then he pulled up sudden, and it got so quiet you could 'a heard a pin drop. 'Gen'lemen of the jury, says Freddy Tarlton here gen'lemen, by gol! all that lot Lagan and the rest!
Rube scrambled to his feet. "Look! look, Boss!" he cried, excitedly. "Gee! did y'ever see a critter run like that? My! jus' look! Kiddie may well say she c'd outdistance any hoss. D'you reckon a railroad train c'd go faster'n that, Gideon!" "Dunno," said Gideon, watching the animal racing at full stretch through a cloud of dust.
No, I don't mean a guinea-pig an' a dozen eggs, like the conjurer bloke I see once," she explained in reply to his surprised look; "but if yer the man I take yer for, we'll soon 'ave the pot a-boiling. Many's the weary night I've spent in bed thinkin' about you w'en I might 'ave bin snorin'. That reminds me. Did y'ever notice yer can niver tell exactly w'en yer drop off?
"I might look around in there while I'm waiting for his Majesty t' change. Did y'ever hear th' likes? Bug-house." "But he pays a hundred the day, Haggerty. I'll let you privately into Lord Monckton's suite. But you'll waste your time." "Sure he left this morning?" "I'll phone the office and make sure. . . . Lord Monckton left shortly after midnight. His man followed early this morning.
Crow's dignity asserted itself just as the valiant posse prepared to "straddle" the wheels in mad flight. "Hold on!" he panted. "I lost my dark lantern down there. Go back an' git it, Bud." "Land o' mighty! Did y'ever see anythin' like it?" gasped Jim Borum, trying to mount a ten-year-old boy's wheel instead of his own.
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