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Updated: June 24, 2025
"I am armed and you are not. If one of you moves or speaks he is a dead man. If not, I shall not harm you. You must wait here for an hour. Do you know who it is that has been playing it upon you for months as a parson and a saint? Conky Jim, the bushranger, ye apes. And Phillips and Maule were my two right-hand men. They're off into the hills with your gold Ha! would ye?"
Spokeshave must have shouted down the Irishman's throat, for the next instant he poked his head up the hatchway. "Here I am, bedad!" he exclaimed, shoving past Master "Conky," to whom he had a strong dislike, though "Garry," as we all called him, was friendly with every one with whom he was brought in contact, and was, himself, a great favourite with all the hands on board.
"It's gone now, but it was a place in Whitechapel, where they had boxing competitions, Conky Joe against the Nutcracker that kind of thing." "I give him up, Te Deum, Conky Joe and all!" she exclaimed in despair. "Do you mean me to meet him, Max?" asked Mrs. Mansfield. "Yes. I can't keep him to myself any longer. I must share him with someone who understands.
Private Conklin was a convalescent and should have been tenderly treated. "Ho! "said Private Conklin. "There's another bloomin' orf'cer da- ed." The bucket shot from under him, and his eyes filled with a smithyful of sparks. A tall man in a blue-gray bedgown was regarding him with deep disfavour. "You ought to take shame for yourself, Conky! Orf'cer? bloomin' orf'cer?
"All right, sir; quite so!" said "Conky," as well as he could articulate, his mouth being full of something he had hurriedly snatched from the steward's pantry when he had gone below, and brought up with him to eat on deck, knowing that the skipper would be sure to sing out for him if he remained long away at so critical a juncture. "All right, sir; quite so!"
"I care rather for boxing. Now" she went slowly toward the chair, followed by Heath, "what I want to know, and what you can tell me, is this" she sat down, and leaned her chin on her upturned palm "on present form do you believe the Nutcracker is up to Conky Ja-ky Joe?" As Claude Heath sat down to reply to this question, Mrs. Shiffney said: "Conky Jarky Joe!
This gentleman, however, was not too particular as to time in relieving others when off watch, and I did not concern myself at all about Master "Conky," as all of us called him aboard, on account of a very prominent, and, so to speak, striking feature of his countenance.
This, of course, at once changed the current of my thoughts; and so, without troubling my head any further about "Conky," I sang out as eagerly as before to the first mate, all the more anxious now to prove that I had been right in the first instance, "There she is, Mr Fosset, there she is!"
By this plan the gold was often kept for months in the Gulch before being despatched, but Conky Jim was effectually checkmated, as the escort party were far too strong for him and his gang. He appeared, at the time of which I write, to have forsaken his haunts in disgust, and the road could be traversed by small parties with impunity.
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