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"Me new cook, me " and then Sam appeared and towed him into port. "Well, I'm blest!" Dan exclaimed, staring after him. "What HAVE we struck?" But Johnny knew, as did most Territorians. "You've struck Cheon, that's all," he said. "Talk of luck! He's the jolliest old josser going."
So he called at a place he had heard of in Shaftesbury Avenue, where there was a "josser" who arranged it for him quite simply by means of a bill of sale upon his furniture. After all, he did get some good out of that furniture. And he got some good, too, out of Granville when he let it to Fred Booty for fifteen shillings a week. He was now established definitely in his father's house.
Privately, the constables hoped Furneaux would be their leader. They deemed him "a funny little josser," and marveled greatly at his manner and appearance. Still, they had heard of his reputation; the Inspector, in an expansive moment, had observed that "Monkey Face was sharper than he looked." Thinking example better than precept, Furneaux did not reprove the giggler.
Quest stood upon the threshold, watching the Sheriff and his prisoners leave the house. The former turned round to wave his adieux to them. "There's an elderly josser out here," he shouted; "seems to want to come in." Quest leaned forward and saw the Professor. "Come right in, Mr. Ashleigh," he invited. The Professor promptly made his appearance.
What are you giving me, you josser?" said Collins with a wink and a grin. "Ain't you found out even yet, you silly? Why, it was only a faked-up thing the taking of a kinematograph picture for the Alhambra. You and Petrie ought to have been here sooner and got your wages, you goats. I got half a quid for my share when I let him go."
"Nothing worth looking into, superintendent?" "No not a thing!" he replied. "The silly old josser! pulling me down there amongst the coals and rubbish for an insane idea like that! Why, the flues wouldn't admit the passage of a child; and even then, there's a bend an abrupt 'elbow' that nothing but a cat could crawl up. And that's a man who's an authority on the human brain!
"Please yourself!" the Maluka laughed, and with a flash of white teeth and an infectious chuckle Cheon laughed and nodded back; then, still chuckling, he waddled away to the kitchen and took possession there, while we went to our respective dinners, little guessing that the truest-hearted, most faithful, most loyal old "josser" had waddled into our lives.
The parson had preached incidentally on the advisability of being white white all round. I thought he played to his gallery a bit, in what he said. 'An excellent sermon, said Carraway. 'Did you hear how he got at that josser with the Kaffir wife? That parson's a white man. I said nothing. 'What God hath divided let no man unite, said Carraway, improving the occasion. 'I don't uphold Kaffirs.
Not only had we "struck the jolliest old josser going," but a born ruler and organiser into the bargain. He knew best what was good for us, and told us so, and, meekly bending to his will, our orders became mere suggestions to be entertained and carried out if approved of by Cheon, or dismissed as "silly-fellow" with a Podsnapian wave of his arm if they in no way appealed to him.
What are you giving me, you josser?" said Collins, with a wink and a grin. "Ain't you found out even yet, you silly? Why, it was only a faked-up thing, the taking of a kinematograph picture for the Alhambra. You and Petrie ought to have been here sooner and got your wages, you goats. I got half a quid for my share when I let him go."
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