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George agreed. "How do they know this French Canadian got this Little Brass God out of town?" asked Sandy. "You take a French Canadian of the trapper sort, and get him well tanked, and he'll sell the ears off his head for another drink of brandy. Perhaps he hocked the Little Brass God." "If he did," Will answered, "the search must begin all over again!"
And, as they can't find any place where he hocked the jewelry, or put it up to carry out some gigantic Wall street plan, they are forced to believe that he really did mislay the jewelry while temporarily out of his head. Is that anywhere near right?"
I hocked my gear, bought some old parts, built myself a tractor and trailer, loaded it with water, oxygen, frozen vegetables, spare parts, cigarettes, pin-up pictures, liquor and so forth, and came travelling. I didn't forget tools. You'd be astonished by what you can sell and fix and for what prices out in the isolated areas, or what you can bring back.
Dulcie fairly browbeat the storage manager, and between the two of them they actually arranged for a small van load of furniture to be delivered at Montrose Place before dark. As for the rest of it, Dulcie had a wrist-watch, that for all we know is still reposing in the dusty pawnbroker's at which she cheerfully hocked it.
But, say you ought to see her! "What could I do? I don't know what money looks like in the morning. And she'd paid her last cent of pocket-money for her railroad ticket except a quarter, which she had squandered on gum-drops. She was eating them out of a paper bag. I took her to a boarding-house on Thirty-second Street where I used to live, and hocked her. She's in soak for a dollar.
Say, boys, yo' let me go an' I'll make it all right wid yo'," went on the evildoer, struck by a sudden idea. "What is your name?" asked Whopper. "Jeff Thompson." "Where do you belong?" "Over to Hamilton." "What did you do with that gold watch?" "I ain't said dat I had de watch." "But we are positive you took it," said Snap "Come, tell us where it is." "I dun hocked it," was the low answer.
I'll hock my watch. I can get twenty dollars on it, and get it back Monday for sixty cents extra. It's been hocked before when I was at Cambridge." He had put on his overcoat, and with a brief good-by he started down the hall toward the outer door. Gloria got to her feet. It had suddenly occurred to her where he would probably go first.
"To eat," said Jimmy, and then prompted by the instincts of his earlier training and without appreciable pause: "Won't you take dinner with me?" "No," said the girl, "but you are going to take dinner with me. You're out of a job and broke, and the chances are you've just this minute hocked your watch, while I have plenty of money.
But his heirs sold or hocked the prayer-book, at St. Augustine or Kingston or Havana, before this story reached them. None of them could have read it, anyhow. The Government had been hunting for it, too, but he got to it a week ahead of us. That was how we found who had it.
Please bank it to my credit and take up that note I gave the Marine National; then get the securities I hocked and tuck them back in my safe-deposit vault. As for the interest at five per cent, which the Ricks Lumber & Logging Company will have to pay on that million you borrowed to help Matt Peasley hornswoggle father, you just charge that to your personal account as a penance for your sins.
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