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Th' first-officer, Holleran here, an' me; nobody else knows what we're after, sir; unless you gentlemen abaft, sir, talked careless. I say 'tis serious, Commodore. He knows what we're lookin' fer." Holleran nudged his chief. "Tell th' commodore what we saw on th' way here." "Picard hobnobbin' with Mr. Breitmann, sir." Breitmann? The admiral's smile thinned and disappeared.
"If we was on callin' terms with the Marshs," said Matilda, meditatively, "Mis' Marsh might be bringin' her here." "Not twice," returned Grandmother, with determination. "This is my house, and I've got something to say about who comes in it. I wouldn't even have Mis' Marsh now, after she's been hobnobbin' with the likes of her."
"But by and by she didn't have her Joe. Other folks had him and his business had him. I mean, he'd got up where the big folks in town begun to take notice of him; and when he wa'n't tendin' to business, he was hobnobbin' with them, so's to bring <i>more</i> business. And of course she, with her babies and housework, didn't have no time for that. "Well, next they moved away.
"One day not long ago I run across him hobnobbin' with the strange man I'd seen talkin' with him on the Bend trip. But my driver Nash, he calls himself didn't see me. That night I put a cowboy to watch him. An' what this cowboy heard, put together two an' two, was that Nash was assistant to an I.W.W. leader named Glidden. He had sent for Glidden to come to look over my ranch.
'Her right name, as you saw by the book, is Paggia Paggiola, but people call her Peggy Pig-Eye for short. Go to her house, throw one of the bobbins over the roof, and then throw one around each end. Throw quick and hard, and, as you throw, cry out, "'Bibbity bobbity bobbin, Go hibbity hob hobnobbin. "'But wait! cried the little old man.
And b'gosh! of they aren't now ringin' in a lot of titled forriners to hunt 'big game, as they call it, Lord This-and-That and Count So-and-So, all of 'em with letters to the general from the Washington cabinet to show 'hospitality, or from millionaires who've bin hobnobbin' with 'em in the old country. And darn my skin ef some of 'em ain't bringin' their wives and sisters along too.
That's why I'm sitting out here, takin' things easy and makin' things easy for you. If you don't mind I'll keep my seat, David. It ain't wise to be seen hobnobbin' with swell gents at this time o' night in Hell's Kitchen particularly. I know what you're here for. He's back there asleep. Don't worry. I've got him safely sidetracked."
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