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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Lawks a mussy!" said the old lady. "Wonders and Wonders! Why! it's Mr. Gambell! 'Iding 'is 'ed in that thing! I never did!" "Can we get her out?" said Mr. Gambell. "There's not much time." "He might git stuck in it." "You'll get stuck in it," said Mr. Polly, "come along!" "Not for jumpin' I don't," said the old lady, understanding his gestures rather than his words. "Not a bit of it.
"There's a lot of 'iding goin' on, no question about that; and the great thing is my way of thinkin' at any rate is jest to keep on lookin'." The children met him eagerly at this point, using two favourite words that Aunt Emily strongly disapproved of: "deslidedly," said one; "distinkly," exclaimed the other.
"'Ow could he 'ave come in here without me knowing it?" I ses, firing up. "Easy," ses the landlord, "and stole your boots into the bargain!" "He might 'ave come when your back was turned," ses the policeman, "and if so, he might be 'iding there now. I wonder whether you'd mind me having a look round?"
It was about this time, Worby thought, that his little dog began to wear an anxious expression when the hour for it to be put into the shed in the back yard approached. After that the dog acted very artful with 'iding itself under the bed for half-an-hour or more before bed-time came, and we worked it so as my mother never found out what we'd done."
The door was opened by a lady-like young woman, with smooth soft brown hair, a white forehead, and serious, rather troubled eyes. "Aunty! aunty!" cried the child, "Ducky 'iding!" Miss Drake looked a little surprised. The doctor lifted his hat. She gravely returned his greeting and stretched up her arms to take the child. But she drew back, nestling against Faber.
Happy as a skylark 'e was, and to see him 'iding behind a barrel with his pistol ready, waiting for the ghost, a'most made me forget the expense of it all. It never came near us that night, and Ted was a bit disappointed next morning as he took 'is ninepence and went off.
We will, 'ow you say, 'old ze little hauction." "Auction?" Pell repeated. "'E who bids ze 'ighest," Lopez elucidated, "shall 'ave ze little paper and shall come wiz me while I show 'im where ze oil she is 'iding." He flicked the ashes of his cigarette upon the floor, and sat on the corner of the table, one foot dangling in the air. "Gad!" Pell let out. His hands went together, his jaw set.
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