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Tom was busily engaged in imparting a scientific shine to the boots of an old gentleman who was sitting on one of the wooden seats to be found in the neighborhood of the City Hall. When he had completed his task, and risen from his knees, Limpy Jim advanced towards him, and said, with a sneer, "I've heard fine news about your friend Dick." "What's that?" asked Tom. "He's got nabbed by a 'copp."
Then he opened and read the note quickly. "Did Richard Hunter give this to you?" he asked. "No," said Tim Ryan, for that was his name. "It was the 'copp' that arrested him." "I suppose a 'copp' is a policeman." "Yes, sir." "Were you present when he was arrested?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know anything about it?" "Yes, I seed it all." "You saw the wallet taken?" "Yes, sir." "Did Richard take it?"
But there was an unlooked-for interference. "Look out for the 'copp," said Jim, in a low voice. Micky turned round and saw a tall policeman heading towards him, and thought it might be prudent to suspend hostilities. He accordingly picked up his black-box, and, hitching up his pants, walked off, attended by Limpy Jim. "What's that chap been doing?" asked the policeman of Dick.
He pulled it out, and while he was lookin' at it, up came the 'copp' and nabbed him." "How about the man from whom the wallet was taken?" "He came up puffin', and swore Dick was the chap that stole it." "So he was carried off to the station-house?" "Yes; he's there safe enough." "Then we shall have to carry on business without him," said Gilbert, coolly.
The copp might get hold of you." "Was it a good cigar, Micky?" "Wasn't it, just! I wish I'd got another. Stand treat, Teddy." "I would if I had the stamps. I'm savin' up my money to go to the Old Bowery to-night."
She says they'll likely sell it, for Martha Copp has never been known to keep anything she COULD sell; but if they won't there's a platter at Wesley Keyson's at Spencervale and she knows they'd sell it, but she isn't sure it's just the same kind as Aunt Josephine's." "I'll go right over to Spencervale after it tomorrow," said Anne resolutely, "and you must come with me.
Allan says it is on the principle of calling a place a grove because there are no trees in it," said Diana, "for nobody lives along the road except the Copp girls and old Martin Bovyer at the further end, who is a Liberal. The Tory government ran the road through when they were in power just to show they were doing something."
I wonder what the Copp girls value this house at. I shall have to pay for the damage I've done, but I wouldn't mind that if I were only sure they would understand my motive in peeping in at their pantry window. My sole comfort is that the platter is just the kind I want and if Miss Copp will only sell it to me I shall be resigned to what has happened."
Diana's father was a Liberal, for which reason she and Anne never discussed politics. Green Gables folk had always been Conservatives. Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast.
The Copp girls had given up keeping ducks . . . "because they were such untidy birds". . . and the house had not been in use for some years, save as an abode of correction for setting hens. Although scrupulously whitewashed it had become somewhat shaky, and Anne felt rather dubious as she scrambled up from the vantage point of a keg placed on a box.
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