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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Good-morning," said Jimmie Dale again. "Your name's Hagan, Bert Hagan isn't it? And you work for Isaac Brolsky in the secondhand shop over on West Broadway don't you?" The boy's lips quivered, and the gaunt, hollow, half-starved face, white, ashen-white now, was pitiful. "I I guess you got me," he faltered "I I suppose you're a plain-clothes man, though I never knew dicks wore masks."
Sam might have remained mystified, but at this juncture there proceeded from a bundle of rugs in the neighbourhood of the girl's lower ribs a sharp yapping sound, of such a calibre as to be plainly audible over the confused noise of Mamies who were telling Sadies to be sure and write, of Bills who were instructing Dicks to look up old Joe in Paris and give him their best, and of all the fruit-boys, candy-boys, magazine-boys, American-flag-boys, and telegraph boys who were honking their wares on every side.
I tell you, though," she said presently and more seriously, "I'm sorry on your account. These dicks never forget a face. He's got you catalogued and filed away in what he calls his brain alongside of a dip and a" she hesitated "a girl like me, and no matter how high up you ever get if your foot slips up will bob O'Donnell with these two facts." "I'm not worrying," said Jimmy.
The other was aghast. "Wen did youse go nuts?" he asked. "I ain't gone nuts. Wait 'til I gets t'rough. We meets de dicks, innocent-like; but first we caches de dough in de woods. We tells 'em we hurried right on to lead 'em to dis Byrne guy, an' wen we gets back here to de farmhouse an' finds wot's happened here we'll be as flabbergasted as dey be." "Oh, nuts!" exclaimed the other disgustedly.
"I mean," she answered, "that he'd have been worth more to you than all the rest put together." Nell was a woman, and her mind ran to the, practical aspect of things. "Look here, Peter," she said, "you've been letting those `dicks' work you. They're getting the swag, and just giving you tips. What you need is somebody to take care of you." Peter's heart leaped. "Will you do it?" he cried.
"Well, then," replied Duncan, with something approaching to solemnity in his voice, "mark my words you promise to give me a lift for the drivership with old Jemmy and the two Dicks?" "I do." "Well, then, listen: If you will be at the Grey Stone to-morrow night at twelve o'clock midnight I'll engage that Sarah will give you the box there."
"I'm studying with a private tutor," said Dick. "Are you? So is my cousin Dick. He's going to college this year. Are you going to college?" "Not this year." "Because, if you did, you know you'd be in the same class with my cousin. It would be funny to have two Dicks in one class."
Constance turned to Annie Grayson. "Where's your husband?" she asked offhand. "Oh, he disappeared as soon as these department store dicks showed up," she replied bitterly. She had been watching Constance narrowly, quite nonplussed, and unable to make anything out of what was going on. Constance looked at Drummond inquiringly. He shook his head slowly. "I'm afraid we'll never catch him," he said.
This is a portion of the country that, Heaven be praised! still retains some of the good old-fashioned directness and simplicity. Bucks is full of Jacks, and Bens, and Dicks, and we question if there is such a creature, of native growth, in all that region, as an Ithusy, or a Seneky, or a Dianthy, or an Antonizetty, or a Deidamy.
Sam might have remained mystified, but at this juncture there proceeded from a bundle of rugs in the neighbourhood of the girl's lower ribs, a sharp yapping sound, of such a calibre as to be plainly audible over the confused noise of Mamies who were telling Sadies to be sure and write, of Bills who were instructing Dicks to look up old Joe in Paris and give him their best, and of all the fruit-boys, candy-boys, magazine-boys, American-flag-boys, and telegraph boys who were honking their wares on every side.
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