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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Well," said Greenfield, drawing lines with his knife-point on the nap, "one reason was I wanted to see if Her Majesty's shop has such an all-fired long arm " "And the other reason was I warned you to keep over the line." "Why, Bub, you are a bright boy!" "It ain't me, Bucky," Frawley answered, with a shake of his head; "it's the all-fired government that's after you."
The telegram's just in." The Honorable Secretary, a little strange yet to the routine of the office, looked at Frawley with a sudden desire to test his memory. "Do you know the work?" he asked; "could you recognize the ringleader?" "That might not be so hard, sir," said Frawley, with a nod; "we know pretty well, of course, who's able to handle such jobs as that.
"Well, Buck is clever there's no gainsaying that quite at the top of the profession. Then, he's expecting me." "You?" "They're a queer lot," Frawley explained with a touch of pride. "Crooks are full of little vanities. You see, Bucky knows I've never dropped a trail, and I think it's rather gotten on his nerves. I think he wasn't satisfied until he dared me. He's very odd very odd indeed.
The late Robert Burns was played by T. D. Frawley in a deliciously Hibernian way. Poor Bobbie would have had a fit if he could have seen his nationality juggled with in this manner. If Mr. Frawley had warbled "The Wearing o' the Green" the illusion would have been complete. Mr. Andrew Mack could have done nothing better for Ireland.
Inspector Frawley, leaning forward, helped himself busily. Greenfield, with pursed lips, studied every movement. "No kidnapping tricks?" Without lifting his eyes Frawley sharpened his knife vigorously against his fork and fell to eating. "Well, Bub?" "What?" "No fancy kidnapping?" "I'm promising nothing, Bucky." There was a blank moment while Greenfield considered.
What was Miss Frawley doing?" "It was in that climbing scene. You know she climbs the sheer precipice of rock. There are hidden spikes driven into the rock for her feet, of course, but she missed one, and fell." "I'll be as careful as I can, but I may miss it, too." "In that case, we'll have to get some one else," said Mr. Bixby, coolly. "Are you ready for work?"
Nothing personal, you understand, but it'll have to be your life or mine. If it comes to the pinch, look out for yourself " "Oh, yes," said Frawley, with a matter-of-fact nod, "I understand." "I ain't tried to bribe you," said Greenfield, rising. "Thank me for that though another man might have been sent up for life." "Thanks," Frawley said with a drawl.
So Gale walked off by himself and Azalea turned a troubled face to the man. "Mr. Merritt," she said, "I can't have anything more to do with the whole affair. I'm quite sure my relatives here wouldn't approve of it, and I can't keep the matter secret any longer." "But you must come, Miss Thorpe. By a strange coincidence you are greatly needed. Miss Frawley has broken her ankle " "She has!"
"I say, what did you do it for?" "You are a rum un," said Greenfield with a broken laugh. The words began to come shorter and with effort. "Excitement, Bub! Deviltry and cussedness!" "How do you feel, Bucky?" asked Frawley. "Half in hell already stewing for my sins but it's not that it's " "What, Bucky?" "That bug! Me, Bucky Greenfield to go down and out on account of a bug a little squirmy bug!
There he had taken the steamer by the Straits of Magellan back to Buenos Ayres. There, within the first hour, he heard a report that his man had gone on to Rio Janeiro, caught the cholera, and died there. Undaunted by the epidemic, Frawley took the next boat and entered the stricken city by swimming ashore. For a week he searched the hospitals and the cemeteries.
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