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Updated: June 23, 2025
If a body can't do without father an' mother, I'll make up a couple to please you, same as I made up a aunt for Glasson. Maggs's Circus is where I belong to, an' there 'twas Tilda, or 'The Child Acrobat' when they billed me." "You don't look much like an acrobat," commented Mr. Hucks. "Don't I? Well, you needn't to take that on trust, anyway."
"Not hurt yourself, I hope?" he asked, as the Doctor rubbed that part of himself which had come into collision with the sharp edge of a concertina. "Clear away that coil of hose and take a seat on the packing-case yonder. That's right; and now let's talk." He puffed for a moment and appeared to muse. "Seems to me, Glasson, you're in the devil of a hurry to catch this child."
"Good Lord! Mortimer!" ejaculated Mr. Hucks, but inwardly. "I need hardly point out to you that a bargee in a furred collar " "No, you needn't." Mr. Hucks rose from his chair. "See here, Glasson, you've come with a notion that I'm mixed up in this. Well, as it happens, you're wrong. I don't ask you to take my word I don't care a d n whether you believe me or not only you're wrong.
"Because, ma'am, that gal has a business conscience developed to a degree I never struck yet in man or woman. You've dealt open with me, and I'll deal open with you. I did help that pair to give Glasson the slip; not from any kindheartedness, I'd have you to know, if you're thinkin' to accuse me of it; but as a kind of by-speculation.
But it conveyed a great deal. Parson Chichester reached across with his disengaged right hand, took the card and read The Reverend Purdie J. Glasson, LL.D., Holy Innocents' Orphanage, Bursfield. The words danced before his eyes.
All this, between groans, he managed to explain to the policeman, who, having sent for an ambulance stretcher, called for volunteers to carry him home; for home Dr. Glasson insisted on being taken, putting aside and with great firmness the suggestion that he would be better in hospital. Sam Blossom was among the first to offer his services. But here his master interposed.
He suspected, of course nay, was certain that Glasson had kept back something important. Thus his meditations were running when the Doctor's reply switched the current in a new direction. "You have not heard the whole of it.
Good night," he said, and stood watching while Glasson passed out. Then, swinging on his heel, he strode back to the caravan. "Mortimer!" he challenged, mounting to the third step and knocking. "Ha! Who calls?" answered the deep voice of Mr. Mortimer after two seconds' interval. "Hucks. And I want a word with you."
For I saw that dirty thief Glasson was mad to get the boy back, and it seemed to me there was likely some money in it. I gave 'em their chance, yes; because it happened so, and I couldn't see no other way. Now, observe me that gal knew all the time I wasn't doing it for my health, as you might say; she knew well enough I was just as hard as Glasson, though maybe in a different way.
'Ere, 'and me the part you was tellin' about; an' I'll learn it an' say it, though not within a 'undred miles of Glasson which," she added, "I'll be an old woman before that, at the rate we're goin'. But you don't drag Arthur Miles into it, an' I give you fair warnin'. For, to start with, 'e's 'idin', an' 'tis only to keep 'im 'id that I got 'Ucks to let yer loose.
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