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Now the way I look at the game is this: we got a big chance to win and we got a big chance to lose, and if we do the things we oughter do it's goin' to be bright and fair, and if we do the things we hadn't oughter do it's goin' to be dark and stormy, and I got my ijeers which is which. But, as I said, it don't do too much good to tell everythin' you know."
"Jerry," said the Doctor, "I value your judgment and I thank you for coming to me in this frank way and giving me the benefit of your ideas." The interview was over. Old Jerry left the office of the Head mumbling to himself: "I got my ijeers and sometimes, by gorry, they's uncommon ijeers."
"Them two birds I'm tellin' yer about, Bassett, the feller they called the Whirlwind, and Campbell. Now I ain't no reg'lar detecative, Doctor, but I got my ijeers, and that sot me to thinkin' hard and I knew somethin' uncommon suspicious was goin' on.
I got eyes an' ears as are uncommon good, even though I been usin' the same ones for nigh on to seventy year. I got my own ijeers as to who's sneak-thieving this school and bime-by somebody's goin' to get ketched." "What are your ideas?" asked Snubby. "Do you know who's doing it?" But old Jerry had no further enlightenment for his friend, even when Snubby pressed him further.
"I got eyes an' ears," said the old man, "an' I got my ijeers too." Doctor Wells referred to the mystery indirectly one morning at chapel. "How foolish it is for any of us to believe that we can commit a wrong and escape the penalty merely because no one sees us," he said. "Every evil deed leaves its heaviest mark not on the victim of it but on the misguided person who performs it.
"You know some one's been getting away with a lot of valuable truck from the fellows' rooms. It would be an awfully clever stunt to catch him. Why don't you snoop around and find out who it is?" "There's ijeers and ijeers," said Jerry. "I got my ijeers too. I ain't got no need to snoop around.
"I know you have, Jerry," said Doctor Wells, who from twenty years' acquaintance with the old-timer was aware that no small matter had induced him to invade what he had always considered as no less than sacred territory. "Yes," said Jerry, "ijeers are common until they get backed up by facts, Doctor, and then they's uncommon. The boys was tellin' me the news about Bassett and Campbell.
Doctor Wells immediately came out to the door and ushered old Jerry into his office where the grizzled janitor's assistant sat on the edge of one of the big chairs and, holding his hat in his hand, announced to the head of the school the following: "I got my ijeers and they ain't no common ijeers either, Doctor."
Old Jerry thrust his head forward slightly, as if seeing his visitor for the first time, and said: "There's ijeers in this book, I wanter tell yer. It's about an awful smart feller who had ways of his own in gettin' at the bottom o' things kind of a detecative chap." Snubby looked at the title and saw that it was "The Mystery of the Million Dollar Diamond."
Old Jerry laid the book carefully aside on his table, looked at his questioner seriously for a moment and said: "I got my ijeers about that too, but it don't do no good to tell everythin' that is millin' aroun' in your head.
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