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'I belongs to you, and you belongs to me, he said, with infinite satisfaction in his tone, and Mr. Allonby answered, with a little embarrassed laugh: 'And finding's keeping, my little boy. We'll hold together for the present, at any rate. Of course Lady Isobel's letter had to be answered, and the wonderful news told of Bobby's change of home.
The encounter was startling to both, but Clif was the first to recover his wits. His quick eye detected the fallen shell, and he divined the fellow's purpose. Before the other could recover from his evident fright, Clif sprang upon him. "So you have found it!" he muttered, as he closed in upon the Spaniard, "but finding's not keeping's this time."
"I don't care what it is!" cried the boy. "It's mine!" He was almost in tears, stamping his foot, much as in old days when Gwen, a born tease, had stolen his woolly bear, and refused to give it up. The man made him feel like a baby he, a King's officer. "Forgive me," replied the other. "It is mine." "Finding's keeping, I suppose!" sneered the boy, ablaze.
And oh, by the way Then I know what's coming an' what I can do for 'em I do, for I confess, lady, that I hanker for a little bit o' flattery and a few words o' praise I'm not entitled to. I don't covet any man's money or at least not enough to damn me into hell on that account. Finding's keeping, and a bet's a bet, but I don't covet money more than that dog o' mine covets fleas.
They are going to make a raid on it tomorrow, and perhaps they will find some of the stolen property in their possession; then we have the impression of a hand on this paper, and we can get one of Monkey's hands and see if they aren't the same." "Faith, hunting is wan thing and finding's anither," commented Gerald.
"No fear," answered the other, calmly returning the piece of lost property to his own pocket. "In this case finding's keeping; besides, I'm not sure if I couldn't get a reward for this if I sent it to the right place." The train began to slacken speed as it approached Ronleigh station. "Look here, Noaks," cried Jack Vance, in a fit of desperation, "what are you going to do?
"Certainly you are to have it all, every penny of it! Finding's having! that is paper-mill law; ask James Gregory if it is not! There comes James this moment; go and tell him of your good fortune, and let him bring you up to my house this evening to get the money.
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