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Updated: June 16, 2025
"I don't know how they pry it all loose from him, but one mawnin' ole man Sanford wakes up clean as a whistle. They've copped the whole works he ain't got nothin'. So he goes to keepin' books fur a whisky house in Loueyville, 'n' he holds the job down steady fur twenty years. The only time he quits pen-pushin' is when they race at Churchill Downs.
"And I suppose if she copped a millionaire in the ambush they wouldn't howl bloody murder," said the girl, with admirable intuition.
I know it's hard, but it's got to be done. Try and occupy your mind. Collect butterflies." Spike shuffled in gloomy silence. "'Member dose jools we got in de hotel de year before I was copped?" he asked at length irrelevantly. Jimmy finished tying his tie, looked at the result for a moment in the glass, then replied: "Yes, I remember." "We got anudder key dat fitted de door. 'Member dat?"
There was a warning shout from Beamish, instantly muffled, a tramp of feet, a pistol shot, and sounds of a violent struggle. For a moment there was silence in the cabin, the men gazing at each other with consternation on their faces. Then Bulla yelled: "Copped, by heck!" and with an agility hardly credible in a man of his years, whipped out a revolver, and sprang out of the cabin.
Somethin's just appeared to 'im, and 'e ain't 'arf copped it." "Appeared? Tell me what happened," said Melchard, querulously. "Fell right down the stair, tray and all," said Black Beard, "just as if he'd been pushed." Melchard was stooping over the scarce breathing body. "He's not dead," he declared. "He will be," said Black Beard, "unless you 'phone to Millsborough for a doctor damn quick."
'I suppose we couldn't go in a yacht? said Toffy, inspired with a sudden suggestion, and sitting up on the sofa full of grave interest. 'There 'd be much less chance of being copped on the pier than if one travelled on a liner.
"Yes, 'e 'adn't 'alf copped it...." "Not standing treat much, neither; he was in the bar, all on his own...." "So 'e was; we talked about it...." The fat, scared-eyed man made another attempt. "She got the key off of me she 'ad the number of it she come into my shop of a Tuesday evening...." Nobody heeded him. "Shut your heads," a heavy labourer commented gruffly, "she hasn't been found yet.
He's like a jumpin tornado; hits every ten miles and don't bend a blade of grass in between. "Took me about five minutes to tell Suds about Donnegan. Then Suds let out a grunt and started down the trail for the old dad. Missed him. Dad had got out of the Jungle and copped a rattler. Suds come back half green and half yeller. "'I've done it; I've spilled the beans, he says.
The surprise it might almost have been taken for alarm which he had shown at the first sight of Alec seemed to have given place to a gentle and amiable weariness, which persisted through the recital of the Captain's experiences how his errand of courtesy, or gallantry, had led to his being on the road across the heath so late at night, and of what he had seen there. "You copped them properly!"
But Nellie Whitehead was incased in a wrap that showed every evidence of a good six months' wear. "My new coat?" the lady echoed, in answer to Claire's question. "There ain't no such animal. Somebody else copped it. I didn't shove it back far enough the last time I took a look at it, I guess. Oh, well, I should worry! I can get along very well without it...."
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