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'Jackson isn't half copping it from old Bick. 'Isn't ? What exactly did you say? 'He's getting it hot on the carpet. 'You wish to indicate, said Psmith, 'that there is some slight disturbance, some passing breeze between Comrades Jackson and Bickersdyke? Bristow chuckled. 'Breeze! Blooming hurricane, more like it.
'Precisely, Sir Rupert said. 'Mr. Copping quite appreciates the extreme gravity of the situation. 'Come, let us go round, let us do something, Helena said impatiently, and she and the Duchess and Mrs. Sarrasin and Miss Paulo left the corridor. Meanwhile Mr.
'Excellency, the good Sarrasin said, in his courtliest and yet simplest tones, 'I ask permission to present to you two distinguished American scholars Professor Flick of Denver and Sacramento, and Mr. Andrew J. Copping of Omaha. These gentlemen will be proud to have the honour of meeting the patriot Dictator of Gloria, whose fame is world-renowned.
The Coroner's jury had found a verdict of wilful murder against the man describing himself as Andrew J. Copping of Omaha, for the killing of the man describing himself as Professor Flick, and had found that the calamities at Seagate Hall were the work of certain conspirators at present not fully known, but of whom Andrew J. Copping, otherwise known as Manoel Silva, was charged with being one.
'They seem to me more like men acting a stiff and conventional American part than like real Americans. But, of course, I have never met much of that type of American. He soon put the question away, and thought of other people than Professor Flick and Mr. Andrew J. Copping.
'When we come safe out of this business 'If we come safe out of this business, the Professor interposed, with a punctuating emphasis on the 'if. Copping answered all unconsciously in the words of Lady Macbeth. 'Keep your courage up, and we shall do what we want to do. Then he left the room, and cautiously closed the door behind him, and crept stealthily away.
Copping hastened to say. 'But still, if one has other work to do, Professor Flick was beginning to articulate. 'My friend is very much occupied with his own special culture, Mr.
Copping, but I had a little talk with Professor Flick. I am afraid, by the way, he thinks me very stupid, for I appear to have got him mixed up in my mind with somebody quite different, and you know it vexes anybody to be mistaken for anybody else. I meant to ask him what State he hailed from, but I quite forgot. His accent didn't seem quite familiar to me somehow.
The learned Professor seemed to be beginning to think that the time had come in this particular business for every man to drag his own corpse out of the fight. The influence of Mr. Copping of Omaha had kept him in due control for awhile, but the time was clearly coming when the Professor would kick over the traces and give his friend from Omaha the good-bye.
'Certainly, certainly, Sir Rupert said, and he hastened away, leaving the two distinguished friends together. 'Look here, Copping exclaimed, with blazing eyes, 'if you are going to get into one of your damnation cowardly fits I shall just have to stick a knife into you. The learned Professor began with characteristic ineptitude to reply in South American Spanish.
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