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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Yes; I recollects the name," replied the captain, with quiet ridicule. "Well, this business pertained t' him. Seems some o' his friends got money t'gether t' rescue him from some island or other." "St. Helena." "That wus it. They left the cash in a box in Corsiker, 'nother island; I-talyan, I take it. But I'll bet a dollar you never find anythin' there." "That is as may be."
Tony caught the other arm in time to prevent it delivering a blow at the man who had interrupted Palmer Billy's pleasant entertainment of thrashing one of a tribe who had so often lured him to destruction. "Darned dirty I-talyan," he gasped, as he struggled to break away and re-open the campaign on the prostrate Gleeson. "Give him a chance," Peters said. "Let him get his wind.
"The darned dirty I-talyan" was alone and practically unprepared then he was back with his mates now; and while they were armed, the Creekers were not. Palmer Billy sized up the situation quickly and shrewdly. He turned slowly to his comrades, with one arm extended and pointing to the four. "What sort!" he exclaimed hilariously. "They've jumped the jumpers!
When they managed to extricate themselves, Palmer Billy was the last to rise from the ground. He had suffered somewhat in the scrimmage, and his nose was bleeding freely, but he looked round without malice upon his panting comrades as he said, slowly and savagely "A darned dirty I-talyan; and on a white man's claim."
"Yessir," continued the captain; "speaks I-talyan an' English. An' if I ever meets a lady with long soft hands like his'n, I'm for a pert talk, straightway." "What's the matter with his hands?" asked the admiral. "Why, Commodore, they're as soft as Miss Laura's here, an' yet when th' big Swede who handles th' baggage was a-foolin' with him this mornin', it was the Swede who begs off.
"A darned dirty I-talyan," Palmer Billy shouted; "and on a white man's claim. Roll in, diggers." A dozen outraged and indignant diggers responded. The revolver was knocked up and out of Gleeson's hand, and went spinning high into the air through a well-aimed blow from a spare pick-handle.
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