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"He's workin' for the Lang girl now," put in another. Boris snarled and, flinging his tormentors away from him, made his way to the bar, jabbering excitedly in Russian to Pete Ankovitch. Blagg moved nearer. "What's he sayin', Pete?" he asked. Ankovitch laughed. "He say everybody go to hell," he interpreted. "He say he show Mascola he ain't 'fraid of no woman."
It was while I was present that he first come ter know that his thief-proof safe had been opened and that his pile of greenbacks had been stolen. The safe had been opened with the key hidden back of the tobacco jar on his writin' desk." Isa Blagg broke off, looking to Kiddie for comment. "Well?" said Kiddie. "Go on. What's your theory? You mentioned the name of Nick Undrell a while back.
The Russian had fled, leaving no trace of his whereabouts. Blagg also was missing, so nothing further could be learned from that source. Gossip had been rife in the fishing village over the sudden disappearance of the two men. Then the matter was apparently forgotten, giving place to the excitement caused by the installation of the first radio-set on one of the cannery fishing fleet.
It's the way I like to hear men talk. It shows you've got the sand. Take it from me, you'll never be sorry you stuck." She walked forward and passed familiarly among them while the Blagg faction melted slowly away and straggled down the dock in the direction of the town.
The bartender jerked his shorn head in the direction of the frosted glass enclosure. Blagg drew back, his ardor somewhat chilled to find his quarry so near. Perhaps it was better to figure out just what he was going to say before he tackled the boss. Deciding that he could plan better in the open air, he walked unsteadily to the swinging doors and staggered across the street.
The evening had arrived, and she was seated in her reception-room, talking to the first-comer a very tall and grave gentleman with solemn long hair. This was Mr. Blagg, the well-known newspaper correspondent. He was a most ingenious and laborious writer.
And I was direct to you it is your name on ze carte!" And he presented me with that fatal card which I had been foolish enough to give to Blagg as a proof of my identity. I saw it all now; the old villain had betrayed me, and to earn a double reward had put the real owner on my track.
How do you account for a thread of the same stuff bein' found fixed round one of the claws of my dead hound?" "Your dead hound!" repeated Nick, in genuine surprise. "Dead, d'ye say? D'ye mean he killed it shot it? My, I'm glad we captured him real glad, I am." "What's that?" cried Isa Blagg. "Who d'ye mean?" "All right, Sheriff," said Kiddie. "Leave it to me, please.
What do you suppose will become of you if he makes good? How long will you get that six dollars a day with the Lang fleet out of commission? You've been fighting his men for a square deal ever since you came here. And now you're figuring on helping them run you out of your own town." Blagg noticed that several of the men were falling back and whispering among themselves.
"Dunghill cottages are not so frequent as they were, but there are still a vast number too many. When old Gifford made a solitude round him, Blagg built those reed-thatched hovels at Morte which contribute more poor rogues to the quarter sessions than all the surrounding parishes.
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