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'From Miss Lamb she's in London. She's coming to pay me a surprise visit this evening I know who'll get the surprise. Mrs. Plimmer's coming too. "I gave 'im one of my 'arf-pints and made 'im drink it. He chucked the pot on the floor when he 'ad done, in a desprit sort o' way, and 'im and the landlord 'ad a little breeze then that did 'im more good than wot the beer 'ad.
"Let him get up, Tom," said Aleck. "Easy, Master Aleck. Let's make sure first as he won't go off his head again." "I shan't go off my head again now I'm safe, stoopid," cried the smuggler, angrily. "Master Aleck, sir, thankye kindly for helping a poor desprit fellow. I can't say much, but my poor little wife'll say: `Gord bless yer for this for the sake of our weans."
"And well it may, sir. I only 'ope it won't get you into trouble, for if the p'leece go lookin' for a burglar, or murderer, or desprit ruffian, where you 'appen to be, they're sure to run you in. The only think I would point out, sir, if I may be so free, is that your 'ands an' face is too clean."
He snooped and grabbed and fumbled, and every minute he was gittin' madder and madder, a-suckin' and slobberin' like a calf tryin' to draw milk out of the hired man's thumb, and a-gruntin' and groanin' somethin' awful. "Well, I see my finish in about a minute if he ever got good an' woke up, so I resolved to do somethin' desprit.
"I saw him holdin' pretty desprit like t' his saddle." "What started it? Who were they?" asked Bud, as the last of the raiders swept out of sight amid the rolling hills of the valley. "Oh, some of Del Pinzo's gang, you can make sure of that," said Yellin' Kid. "They just rid down on us an' started t' fire. We saw what their game was all right, an' come back at 'em.
"Good for you, Frank; all Bloomsbury expects the Bird boys to do the old town proud again. Many the time have you done it in the past, we all know. And when you feel dead sure that you've got track of the desprit villains who looted our town bank, all you have to do is to give the police the signal, and they'll throw a drag-net around the hang-out of the yeggs.
Oh, at once! She is in the drawing-room putting the best face on it. Twice she has sent in to know if you have arrived, and I sent word, 'No, not yet, though it cut me to the 'eart." "She is anxious to see me?" "Desprit, sir." "She thinks to avoid exposure, then?" said I darkly, keeping a set face. "She 'opes, sir: she devoutly 'opes." He groaned and led the way.
Breaking off the conversation abruptly, he Weal into the chart-house, and returned with a telescope, which, he balanced against a stay. "There's a steamer comin' after us in a desprit hurry," he announced, when a prolonged examination had enabled him to form an opinion. "After us?" repeated Dick. "That's the way I read it. She's from Massowah. The reg'lar channel is fifty miles east.
"I'm clean furgittin' all 'bout that gold," he said, "my time now bein' devoted mostly to foot races, tryin' to beat out Indians, outlaws an' all sorts o' desprit characters, in which I hev been successful so fur. My real trade jest now is that o' runner an' mounting climber, an' I expect to git a gold medal fur the same."
Ye see, the disease that's broke oot amang them whatever it is made some o' them sae desprit that they got through the wundy that looks to the sea an' creepit alang the precipice. It was a daft-like thing to try in the daylight; but certain death would hae been their lot, I suspec', if they had ventured on a precipice like that i' the dark.
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