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I explained while he looked skeptical, bored and knowing simultaneously. "Who would tha flummox, bah goom?" he inquired. "Ay?" He took a pack of playingcards from his pocket and riffled them expertly. "Who you kidding, bud?" he translated. "No one. Ask anybody here if this wasnt a dead lawn yesterday and if it hasnt grown this high since morning." He yawned again and proffered me the deck.
"It will goom soon doubtlez. Bud Bollyooly, will she obey? Zeze English blay zere creeket very 'ard." "She would be made obey," said the baron firmly. The grand duke changed the subject by raising his voice in a splendid, heartening roar at Pollyooly, who was running swiftly around the bases; and for nearly an hour he did his best to burst the welkin.
'Kester! said Sylvia, leaning forwards, and whispering. 'I saw him. He was here. Philip saw him. Philip had known as he wasn't dead a' this time! Kester stood up suddenly. 'By goom, that chap has a deal t' answer for. A bright red spot was on each of Sylvia's white cheeks; and for a minute or so neither of them spoke. Then she went on, still whispering out her words.
You didn't look at your letters until we were outside, and then it was too late. That's why you didn't discharge me at Tahiti. Oh, I know. I saw the long envelope when Lee Goom came over the side. It was from the Governor of California, printed on the corner for any one to see. You'd been working behind my back.
And the swaying men responded in chorus, half hushed, rumbling, with strong aspiration. "Goom zoop! goom zoop!" When fifty yards from us, however, the formation broke and they rushed us with a yell. Our horses plunged in astonishment, and we had hard work to prevent their bolting, small blame to 'em! The men surrounded us, shaking our hands frantically.
And the bent men, their dark bodies gleaming in the firelight, stamping in rhythm every third step, chorused in a deep rumbling bass: "Goom zoop! goom zoop!" Thus they advanced; circled between us and the fire, and withdrew to the half darkness, where tirelessly they continued the same reiterations. Hardly had they withdrawn when another group danced forward in their places.
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