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The sea was flashing with trails of them. Clancy now began to bite out commands. "Stand ready everybody. In the boat and dory there is everything ready, skipper?" "All ready, boat and dory." Out came Clancy's orders then rapid fire and as he ripped them out, no whistling wind could smother his voice, no swash of the sea could drown it.
He was grim, determined, and cuts at the lip and eyes made him no handsomer than he should have been. But he was breathing more easily than Clancy, and, though he had lost much of his speed, he still seemed able to avoid his opponent at will and to hold him off with his straight left arm. Six rounds in which science had been more than a match for all Clancy's bull strength and ring experience!
As to the stolen bonds, their whereabouts was as much a mystery as ever, and Rad appeared to take not the slightest interest in the matter. Since the detective had been summoned, he had washed his hands of all responsibility. I think it was the morning after Clancy's departure that Solomon handed me a pale blue envelope bearing in the upper left-hand corner the device of the Post-Dispatch.
Arkell's we walked back to Clancy's boarding house. Clancy wanted to see how they made out with the punch. We found several of them up in the wind, and so no great danger of them. But two or three of them, Dave Campbell particularly, were running wild. "Boomed out and driving," said Clancy, and began to remonstrate with Dave on the evils of intemperance.
Burton was a splendid swimmer, there was no doubt about that, but his ordeal in the water had told on him severely. He grabbed Clancy's outstretched hand desparingly, and was assisted to climb over the bulwarks. Once aboard, he fell in a sprawl on the boat's bottom, breathing heavily. Hiram Hill got into the boat much more easily.
Then, with bent head, and evidently a prey to harassing thoughts, he crossed Fifth Avenue. Clancy sauntered after him, and saw him enter a block of residential flats in a side street. Then the detective strolled back to the club. Most of Van Hofen's guests had gone. The policeman grinned and muttered in Clancy's ear: "The Senator's a giddy guy. Two of 'em at wanst. Mrs.
The rest of us knew well enough what Clancy would do. "Judgment hell!" Clancy would say, and go in and get lost or maybe get away with it where a more careful man would be lost but we waited to hear what Johnnie such a little boy would say. He said it at last, after looking long into Clancy's face. "I think you'd go in, Captain Clancy." Clancy laughed at that.
"Suppose, Mr. Clancy," Miss Ainsley asked, with mirthful eyes, "that a party in the South had the power to array your section against the North again, would you go with your section?" "Oh, come, Carrie, it is scarcely fair to ask tests on utterly improbable suppositions," said her father laughing, yet he awaited Clancy's answer with interest.
Clancy's response was quick and to the point: With a tigerlike leap he gained the man's side and pressed both hands about his throat. Clancy's shoulder received a hard wrench and a tingling pain shot through his arm. The man who had hailed him was of medium height and stocky build, and well muscled.
"That," whispered the Little Lad, grinning, "is merely an improving of the amenities of the listening-post and the beginning of a dugout shelter from bombs; at least, that's Clancy's suggestion, though I have a suspicion there will be no hurry to roof-in the dug-out and that its back-door will travel an unusual length out."
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