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Updated: May 2, 2025
Jim Dander, down at the cross creek, has got so thin that it's of no manner o' use looking at him sideways, he's not quite visible till he turns his flat front to ye. And Foxey is all but gone; and there's many a man besides as is on the road to the grave, if not there already. Sure, the doctor's the only man that makes money now, though he kills more than he cures.
Oi tell ee there be lots of talk of him, and Captain Lud's gang be a getting stronger and stronger. Oi tell ye, t' maisters be agoing to have a bad time on it afore long, and Foxey be sure to be one of the first served out." "Well, don't you have anything to do with it, Bill.
Foxey Jack Quinn could not have gone very far away from the harbor in that "flurry." Perhaps he had turned back and inland, searching blindly for shelter, and lay even now somewhere near this fire? It struck the skipper as a great idea. He would have three clear days to give to the quest of the body of Jack Quinn without arousing the curiosity of the harbor.
Quinn had not been popular. The skipper informed his two companions that the missing man had broken into his house and robbed him of an article of great value. "We bes sure to find him somewheres handy," said Bill Brennen. "Foxey Jack was always a fool about the weather didn't know east from west when the wind blowed. What was it he robbed from ye, skipper?"
"What's that the cap'en is singin' out?" said Davy Butts, who was mending a pair of canvas shoes. The men roused themselves at once; for the hope of anything new turning up excited them. "Hallo! ho!" roared the captain again, in a voice that might have started a dead walrus. "Tumble up, there! a fox-chase! I'll give my second-best fur-coat to the man that catches foxey!"
"Oi hear, at noine o'clock last noight he walked in to Justice Thompson's and said as he had coom to give hisself up. He said as how he had been over at Painton, where the old woman as was his nurse lives; and directly as the news coom in t' arternoon as Foxey had been killed and he was wanted for the murder, he coom straight over." "That's roight," Luke said heartily; "that settles it.
But there's such swells in this and such a foxey bunch of blacklegs, that I'm as nervous as a rookie cop on his first arrest. Don't hold a grudge against me." Shirley lit a cigarette and resumed his good nature: "Go on, Captain. I'm so stale with dolce far niente, after the Black Pearl affair last month, that I act like an amateur myself. Make it short, though, for I'm going to the opera."
Dennis explained it briefly, having outlined his plans several times before. "An' how long does we have to stop away?" asked Nick. "Five days. Yer watch'll be five days, an' then I'll be sendin' out two more lads," replied the skipper. Foxey Jack Quinn stood, without a word, his vicious face twisted with a scowling sneer.
You were going to take upon yourself a crime which you never committed to clear me. You went to York to declare yourself the murderer of Mulready, in case I had been found guilty. You were going to emigrate to America to send home a written confession." "Who says as how oi didn't kill Foxey?" Luke said doggedly. "If oi choose to give myself oop now who is to gainsay me?"
Ef the jury foind him innocent, of course thou will't hold thy tongue; ef they foind him guilty, then thou'lt get up in the court, and thou'lt say to the joodge, civil loike: "Moi lord, the gentlemen of the jury have made a mistake; oi am the chap as killed Foxey and oi ha' got a young man here as a witness as moi words is true." "Perhaps that will be the best way, Bill," Luke said thoughtfully.
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