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Updated: July 15, 2025
But I knew nothing definite, and hardening my heart to do the work myself, I went on, until I found again the alley between the blind walls where I had left the dog-stealer. It was noon. The alley was empty, the neighbouring lane at the back of the Filles Dieu towards St. Martin's was empty.
I bought them on the Boulevard, and at the same stall I bought a bright blue handkerchief which was going cheap; this I wear round my neck. My upper man resembles that of a dog-stealer, my lower man that of a bishop. My buttons are turning my hair grey. When I had more than one change of raiment these appendages remained in their places, now they drop off as though I were a moulting fowl.
Leroy, of Madison avenue, and I am employed to take it out for an airing." "It's a lie!" said the man, sullenly. "If you are seen again in this neighborhood," said the policeman, "I shall arrest you. Now clear out!" The would-be thief slunk away, and Frank thanked the officer. "That man is a dog-stealer," said the policeman. "His business is to steal dogs, and wait till a reward is offered.
"I seized him by the arm, and held him till a policeman came up." "You are a brave boy," said Mrs. Leroy, admiringly. "But for you, Fido would have been stolen." "The policeman said the man was a professional dog-stealer. He steals dogs for the reward which is offered." "I was sure I could trust you with my pet," said Mrs. Leroy. "You deserve a reward yourself."
'You're doing that anyway, you bloomin' renegade dog-stealer, called back the private. 'Wy didn't you pay your landlady in Lunnon for the lodgin's you owed when you run away? 'Schweinhund! said the voice angrily, and a bullet slapped into the parapet in front of the taunting private.
"Say what you have to say without apologizing, please," said Gwendolen, with the air she might have bestowed on a dog-stealer come to claim a reward for finding the dog he had stolen. "I have only to remind you of something that occurred before your engagement to Mr. Grandcourt," said Lush, not without the rise of some willing insolence in exchange for her scorn.
He was a man of about fifty years of age, tall, straight, bony and angular, with a square, pale face, light gray eyes, and scanty dark hair, brushed from either ear across a bald crown, and thus imparting to his physiognomy some faint resemblance to that of a terrier a sharp, uncompromising, hard-headed terrier a terrier not to be taken in by the cleverest dog-stealer who ever distinguished himself in his profession.
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