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A look of surprise came into the Bowery Boy's face, followed by one of stolid woodenness. He took the sovereign that Jimmy held out to him with a muttered word of thanks, and shuffled out of the room. "Can't see what you wanted to give him anything for," said Lord Dreever. "Chap'll only spend it getting soused." "Oh, he reminded me of a man I used to know." "Did he?
'I don't see what you can do, Jim, he said, 'unless the Rugby chap'll be satisfied with a pound on account. It's a beastly business. Do you think your pater will give you your money all the same as it was such a close finish? Jim thought not. In fact, he was certain that he would not, and Tony relapsed into silence as he tried to bring another idea to the surface.
"It's all through my girl," said Private Smith meekly; "first she jilted me, and made me join the army; now she's chucked the other fellow, and wrote to me to go back." "An' now I s'pose the other chap'll take your place in the army," said Joe. "Why, a gal like that could fill a regiment, if she liked. Pah!
He pointed down the glen in the direction of the sea, and the three young men who were considerably exercised by this sudden turn of events and the disappearance of the chests, looked after his out-stretched hand and then at each other. "Well, we can't stand here doing nothing," said Gilling at last. "Look here, we'd better divide forces. This chap'll have to be removed and got to some hospital.
"Got to find that out, somehow!" mused Melky. "Else that poor chap'll be in a nice fix s'elp me, he will! And that 'ud never do!" Melky, in spite of his keenness as a business man, and the fact that from boyhood he had had to fight the world by himself, had a peculiarly soft heart he tended altogether to verge on the sentimental.
What sort of job? "'Pull this truck round to 6A Plimsbury Street and deliver the tubs. "'Ow much 'll you give me? was the inevitable inquiry. "'Old chap'll give you half-a-crown, if you ask him. "'And 'ow much am I to keep? "'Oh, we won't quarrel about that. I've got to see about another job or I'd take 'em myself. You deliver the tubs and be careful of 'em.
You can easy jump out when she slows up at the top of the grade. You want to be sure, though, and shut the door behind you so as nothing won't be suspected, and so this chap'll have a good, long ride undisturbed by visitors; see?" If Rod could not talk, he could still hear; and, by paying close attention to this conversation, he formed a very clear idea of the tramps' plans.
For I d' know you're not the sort to go hidin' it in a napkin. An' d' 'ee reckon th' old chap'll be cuttin' such a figure as to own up, 'Lord, I left it to a corn-merchant'? Ridic'lous to suppose! . . . The Lord giveth, an' the Lord taketh away. . . . With cottage property, I grant 'ee, 'tis another thing. Cottage property don't go on all-fours."
He faced his dread ordeal with a look of pride on his face. "Fire!" Several shots rang out, and he fell heavily to the ground. "Yon' chap'll never do any more spying," said one soldier to another a little later. "If I had my way," said the other, "he should not have had such a death as that.
"Town breedin', town breedin'," muttered he; "it's curi's what it'll make of a lad. This chap'll grow up with his head full o' le'rnin' into a lawyer or parson or somethin' like, and my lads'll be skippers like their dad, with no le'rnin' to speak on. I'll warrant this lad could get off more book-stuff in five minutes 'an mine ever heerd on."
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