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"I'll never want for sup or bed in Trenton while Thomas Drinker lives." "Ach!" exclaimed the colonel. "Dod iss mein blace ver I sleeps und eats und drinks. Und all bessitzen you will it find." Notwithstanding the warning, the sleigh was driven to the Drinkers' door, now flanked by a battery of field-pieces, and in front of which paced sentries, who refused to let them pass.
"It is the Cointet's doing!" cried poor Eve, aghast at the news; "they are proceeding against you! that accounts for Metivier's hardness. . . . They are paper-makers David! they want your secret!" "But what can we do to escape them?" exclaimed Mme. Chardon. "If de misdress had some liddle blace vere the master could pe hidden," said Kolb; "I bromise to take him dere so dot nopody shall know."
Och, mine Got, dis ish von h l of a blace! Notting put prandy und vhisky! I pelieves I vill go by Yarmany the steamer next. Vell, give us dree prandys! Trink hearty, poys. Mine frient," continued he, turning to the hackman, "your peesness ish goot? No?" "Yes, sah! I always dribes the gemmen what comes on de steamer. Ya, ha! Dey nearly all goes to de same place.
Will you bromise, blease, to keeb it secret, what I'm goin' to tell you?" "Yes, rather! Fire away," said the Emîr. "Well, sir, I know of a blace where gold is found more blenty than the oranges in that garden we now come from." "You don't? You're joking!" The Emîr stared at him. "I do, sir. You know, there's lots of country neffer been exblored away there to the south and east, behind the Jordan.
"Dondt you vool von minute mit dod Edelheim. I dells you vot I do. I harf choost a blace vacant down in Zender Streed, and your frient he shall it haf." So they chatted till all the details had been arranged. Dennis was to go in as caretaker, bound to use only Bohlmann's beer, with a percentage on that, and the profits on all else.
"Vat id diss blace here galled itself; vat?" They made no answer. Indeed they did not understand, though the question repeated itself. And at last the monster drove away northward over a crest of pine woods and was no more seen. They fell into a hot and long disputation.... The hymn ended.
"And that is the clew we are working on at the moment," the detective added. "Three of my men are now searching the records of all the express companies in the city and there are a great many for the pigeon shipments. If, as seems probable, this clew develops, it may be that we can place our hands on the diamonds within a few days." "I don'd d'ink I vould yust blace my hands on dem," Mr.
Should I put in twenty thousand dollars' vort of goots, and make a mistake of der blace vere a town should be? I guess not! Viteman stays. By and by der railroat comes to Viteman. You vatch. Keep your eye on Viteman."
Were these dreams of revenge, this fancy of creating a new village, only an outcome of some shock arising out of the disaster itself, which he had long since forgotten? He was looking from the window. "Coom," he said, "ve are near der blace. I vill show id to you." He rose and passed out to the rear platform.
"No; I gidt oap bretty soon." "And and can you dress yourself?" "I vhistle, 'and one of those lidtle fellowss comess. We haf to dake gare of one another in a blace like this. Idt iss nodt like the worldt," said Lindau, gloomily. March thought he ought to cheer him up. "Oh, it isn't such a bad world, Lindau! After all, the average of millionaires is small in it."
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