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Now, looky here, you bloody heathen. It'll cost you just five hundred dollars to recover these two stiffs, an' close my mouth. If you don't come through I'll make a belch t' th' newspapers an' they'll keel haul an' skull-drag th' Chinese Six Companies an' the Hop Sing tong through the courts for evadin' th' laws o' th' Interstate Commerce Commission, an' make 'em look like monkeys generally.
Then he laid a hand sternly on my shoulder, and said, "Ericson, my lad, I'm really sorry; but, you see, there's no use evadin' the hand o' the law, and I must make you my prisoner." "Your prisoner, Mr. Duke! But you cannot think that I have anything to do with the smuggling?" "Smuggling!" said he. "I said nothing about smuggling. With that I have no business.
Troth I commend his valour in evadin' such a rabble o' hell-spawn! An' what from did he escape, th' sthake an' th' stretchline?" "Justice, M'sieu, his life for the chief's." "Ho-ho! From th' looks o' yer fri'nds, me lad, I'm thinkin' 'twill be justice wid her eyes shut!... But ye may turrn back an' search the forest, we have no sthrangers in our party."
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