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Updated: May 1, 2025
The man who owns to having given him the tin box for safe-keeping is, in my opinion, a suspicious character. I shouldn't be at all surprised if he were a jailbird." The small man already referred to, who occupied a seat just across the aisle, here smiled slightly, but whether at the president's remark, is not clear. "What did he call himself?" "Roland Reed no doubt an alias."
"Easily enough, you felon," shouted Marnham. "So," and thrusting his hand into his pocket he pulled out a number of diamonds which he threw upon the table, adding, "there's what will cover it twice over, and there are more where they came from, as you know well enough, my medical jailbird."
And now it's comin' out that he's a crook and a jailbird! And he'll be jailed for stealin' THIS time, too. Ho, ho!" He stopped, out of breath, to indulge in another long chuckle. Jed leaned forward. "What are you talkin' about, Phin?" he demanded. "Even allowin' all this this rigmarole of yours about about Middleford business was true " "It is true and you know it is.
"So, you are rescued, you think! You have laid this trap for me, jailbird!" He drew his pistol as he spoke, and placed it close to the unhappy man's temple. I had mine in my hand, and, aiming at Darke, fired. It was too late. The bullet did not strike him; and the report of his own weapon followed that of mine like an echo.
Suppose I tell him I've been," bitterly, "a crook and a jailbird; what will HE think of me as a son-in-law? And now suppose he was fool enough to consent which isn't supposable how could I stay here, working for him, sponging a living from him, with this thing hanging over us all? No, I can't I can't. Whatever else happens I can't do that. And I can't go on as I am or I won't.
He was certainly uglier, that collection of every physical and moral ugliness, that companion of beggars whom she had picked up among her former vagrant associates, that jailbird, that dealer in little girls, that vagabond covered with filth, with legs like a toad's, with a mouth like a lamprey, and a death's head, in which the nose had been replaced by two holes.
"But it'll be Pa on the wrong side of your face if you make any mistake about it! Jailbird!" he muttered to himself, with a final slam at the door. The others looked at each other. "That's a sweet welcome home," said Chester, with a bitter laugh. He was standing, his head lowered; there was bewilderment as well as anger in his look. "Pa's got to be a terrible crank," said Mrs.
"That's what," replied another of the players, a grim old jailbird who had escaped from the Ceuta penitentiary and who looked just like a fox. "When a guy has the nerve, he rakes in all the dough," and he made a gesture of scooping up all the coins on the table in his fingers "and he skips." "But this Valencia is a coward," said Pastiri in his thick voice.
"Wonder if they practise picking one another's pockets to keep their hands in, of an evening." "I'm told that jailbird has got an album full of tickets-of-leave." "Ah! His father must have travelled a good bit in his time." It was pitiful, paltry jesting, but it was more than I could stand. "Will you stop?" I shouted. "Nobody was speaking to you," said Wallop. "You were speaking of my friend!"
"Memory is short," he thought. So very short. At the crucial point the Trust President is on the stand, a potential criminal needing but one push to be a jailbird, scorned by the upright for leagues around. Let him be acquitted and in a year all is forgotten. "Yes, he did have some trouble once, just a technicality, I believe." Oh, memory is very short!
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