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He is a big, powerful chap, clean-shaven, and very swarthy something like Aldrige, who helped us in the bogus laundry affair. He jumped up when he heard my business, and I had my whistle to my lips to call a couple of river police, who were round the corner, but he seemed to have no heart in him, and he held out his hands quietly enough for the darbies.
I found him in the empty starboard forecastle and called him out. He came, with a bad look in his eyes. "'Put your knife on the water tank alongside my gun, I said, 'and come aft where there's a clear space. We'll find out who runs this ship, you or the afterguard. "'That sounds fair, he said; 'but how about the after clap? This is not my proposition. "'You mean darbies? There'll be none.
If I were to join with you, they'd clap the darbies on me within a week. Jim spread his hands in a gesture of despair. 'I have been mistaken for Solo once; that risk must always follow you, he said. 'I am prepared; but the Government shall never pay their thousand pounds for a live man. I appear as little as possible in the diggings in this guise, however.
"Do ye think I mane to let the fly cops put their darbies on me, that I should be nosin' around in the broad day?" "You're too fly for them, I see," said the bar-keeper, with a sagacious shake of his head. "You an' Barney are a pair." "Barney? Ye mane the Irish lad that was just here a bit ago?" "The same. He's square. He's one of you."
"Here's one, Sampson," said Hawkes, offering one of the square-bladed jackknives used in the navy. "All right, Hawkes. Now, will you stand up and rip these wet duds off me? I can't get 'em off with the darbies in the way." Hawkes stood up and obeyed him. Soon the dripping garments fell away, and Sampson rubbed himself dry with a towel, while Hawkes sleepily turned in.
"It was in this very room," continued the latter, "that I sat and talked with him as sociable as could be, not a quarter of an hour before I put the darbies on him; and it's a thing that has been upon my mind ever since. I was only doing my duty, of course, but still it seemed hard to take advantage of such a frank young fellow.
The waiter was rocking his body, wailing and holding his jaw. His companion was sitting on the floor. In the wine-room two policemen and a thick-set, black-mustached man in a derby hat were asking questions. "Robbed!" moaned Jameson. The man in the derby hat shook him roughly. "Robbed o' what, y' soak?" "Robbed!" "Mike," said the man in the derby, "put th' darbies on th' Sneak.
"Considerin' 'im such a werry desp'rit cove an' all an' a pair o' popps in 'is 'olsters as long as your arm they're in the pockets o' my greatcoat yonder you can see 'em stickin' out. Yes, a sweet, pretty bit o' work as ever we done, eh, Jimmy?" "Ar though 'e floored you once." "Aye that was when 'e slipped off the darbies Oh, a desp'rit cove an' the more credit to us!
As Scip gave the whistle he passed his arm around Moriarity, saying: "Dan Moriarity, you are my prisoner." His words were instantly followed by the rush of the detectives who had been lying in ambush, and Moriarity, taken completely by surprise, threw his hands above his head in token of surrender, and then passively submitted to having the darbies snapped on his wrists.
At last the engro seized the chal by the Belcher’s handkerchief, which he wore in a knot round his neck, and do whatever the chal could, he could not free himself; and when the engro saw that, it gave him fresh heart, no doubt: “It’s of no use,” said he; “you had better give in; hold out your hands for the darbies, or I will throttle you.”
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