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On the fourth day we were picked up by a fishing schooner about fifty miles off Rockaway and towed in. I said to Jakey, I'm Mike Corby, remember that, and if you give your right name I'll kill you you've got to protect me, I said, 'because I'm in bad. You see how it was, kiddo? I was three days overdue at camp and didn't even have my uniform.
He had discovered Faust and used him when it suited his purpose. Some time after the purchase of Diablo, Jakey, reading his Morning Telegraph, came with much interest upon the entries for the Brooklyn Handicap, published that day. They were all the old campaigning Handicap horses, as familiar to Faust as his fellow members of the betting ring.
"Rats," sneered Fat Jakey. "What was that?" Jack Harpe's figure tautened in a flash. "Rats," repeated Fat Jakey. "I thought I heard something," persisted Jack Harpe. "You heard rats," chuckled Fat Jakey. "You're nervous, that's what's the matter, or else you ain't able to open the safe." "I can open the safe all right," growled Jack Harpe, bending again to his work.
Maguinness and descended into the court. Here he found two other boys involved in a difficulty. Things had gone so far that Bootsey saw it would be a waste of time to try to ascertain the merits of the controversy his only and obvious duty being to hasten the crisis. "Hi! Shunks!" he cried, "O'll betcher Jakey kin lick ye!"
Maybe we'll find something else." They did find something else. They found a document caught in the end seam. They read it with care and great interest. "Well," said Racey, when he came to the signatures, "no wonder Jack Harpe and Jakey Pooley wanted to get into the safe. No wonder. If we don't get the whole gang now we're no good." "And to think we never thought of such a thing." "I was took in.
And, cracky, any fellow would be glad to be a friend of his, that's sure, even if he was kind of reckless and you know. He said, "I had so many adventures, old top, that I couldn't tell 'em to you. Jakey and I have Robinson Crusoe tearing his hair from jealousy. Kiddo, this last week has been a whole sea story; in itself just one hair's-breadth escape after another. Ever read Treasure Island?"
But she can't lose, she can't lose!" he repeated in the tone of a man who is reassuring himself. Lewis battled his way along till he stood in front of a bookmaker with a face cast very much on the lines of a Rubens' cherub; but the cherub-type ended abruptly with the plump frontispiece of "Jakey" Faust, the bookmaker. Lewis knew that.
And you can't think what a fault- blindest, spoilingest, candiest mother she was. I'm glad yours is living, for you still have the chance to make her proud and happy,... No matter how fine I may turn out do you reckon I'll ever be admired by anybody, Jakey? Huh! I guess not. But if I were, mother wouldn't be here to enjoy it. Won't you tell Professor Ashton that you are sorry?
God did not put the light in Jakey's eyes and he was blind, and his father was not gentle and loving. Do you think poor Jakey loved his Father in heaven more because his other father was unkind to him? How did God tell people that his home was in heaven?
By this time Amy had tired of the twins, who had fingered her rings and buttons, and stroked her dress and hair, and called her a pretty lady, and asked her on the sly for a nickel. She was getting restless, when Jakey said, "If you'd like to see your mudder's grave, come wid me."
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