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"Then Jerry won't hafta go?" Celia Jane questioned. "I hope not," he replied. "Keep a stiff upper lip, Jerry!" "I I'll try," Jerry promised, already feeling certain that the danger which threatened him had passed. "I'll come back in a day or two," said Mr. Phillips, "and let you know what I have been able to do." Jerry watched him from over Mother 'Larkey's shoulder as he drove off.
As Melroy and Doris Rives approached, the talking died out and the men turned. In the sudden silence, one voice, harshly strident, continued: "... do they think this is, anyhow? We don't hafta take none of that." Somebody must have nudged the speaker, trying without success to hush him.
"wish I had something to scoff, I'm starvin'," groaned Nippers, "but we'll hafta lay low till the bloody tub pulls out or we'll get caught an' dumped ashore." Supper done with, the men were sitting about and smoking. They were soon, however, summoned up on deck, by a voice that roared down to them, from above, filling their quarters with a gust of sound.
"Studies tough in the Temple schools?" he asked. The teen-ager realized it was a make-talk question. He said, "Aw, not much. A lot of curd about rituals and all. You hafta memorize it." "Curd, yet," Joe laughed. "You don't sound particularly pious, Sam. Come to think of it, I suppose any child of Freddy's could hardly be."
"You'll hafta hurry," she admonished him, fanning herself vigorously with a folded newspaper. She wiped her perspiring face on her arm, tilted back her chair, revealing undarned stockings, and waited for him to explain himself. He handed her his card, and at the name Champneys a faint interest showed in her face. "I had a aunt married a feller by that name," she volunteered.
I don't think Rack oughta hafta pay, because he wouldn't 'a' had to sleep there on the table only bein' druv out thataway he couldn't help it like." "Huh how much, Bill?" inquired Swing in a still small voice, and thrust his hand within his pocket. "Well, seein' as it's you, Swing," was the prompt reply, "I'll only say ten dollars and six bits. And that's dirt cheap.
Mullarkey had agreed as to how she'd hafta let him take Jerry because her insurance money from Mr. Mullarkey was all gone and she couldn't make enough to support her own kids." "It ain't so!" blustered Jerry, but all the time terribly frightened. He tried to think of something to say that would show he was not afraid of Darn Darner, who was always picking on little boys. "You shan't go!"
"One evenin', after this had gone on a long time, Josh ups an' says, 'Ma, Phoebe's run complete out o' hand ... she'll hafta be broke o' this right now ... when she comes back to-night I'm going to give her the lickin' of her life. "'Josh, you mustn't whip her. Let's both have a long talk with her.
And the way they was tumbling over each other, tryin' to chew with their tiny teeth, and scrimmagin' around like so many boys playin' football in a back lot well, I couldn't help snickerin' just watchin' 'em for a minute. "All spoke for but dees wan," says Joe, fishing out one of the lot. "Meester Parks he pick heem first wan, but now he hafta go by Chicago and no can take. Fine chance for you.
The bellicose voice continued, and Melroy spotted the speaker short, thick-set, his arms jutting out at an angle from his body, his heavy features soured with anger. "Like we was a lotta halfwits, 'r nuts, 'r some'n! Well, we don't hafta stand for this. They ain't got no right "
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