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By the time this was done and the boy looked round for orders he caught sight of something moving at the shore end of the pier. "Here comes the sailors back to their boat," he said. "They'll see us." "Over with the killick, then easy. Don't splash."
With this cryptic utterance Mr. Killick sank into a corner of the cab, where he remained, evidently lost in thought, until, nearly an hour later, they pulled up at the door of the police-station. Within five minutes they were closeted with the chief men there amongst whom were Ayscough and the detective from New Scotland Yard.
So I rouses up my killick, and makes sail; and whilst I was doing it, I hears two reports, one close upon t'other. I guessed at once't that something was amiss; so I crowds all sail upon the craft, and steers as straight as she would go for the p'int.
"Well, I planted myself on the right flank of the Battalion with-two guns, and sent Sergeant Killick along with the other two to the left. You know the rest." "I'm not sure that I do," said the Major. "We were packed so tight in that blooming trench that it was quite impossible to move about, and I only saw what was going on close around me. Did you get much machine-gun practice?"
Killick, before I go further have you read in the newspapers about what's called the Praed Street Mystery?" The old gentleman shook his head. "My dear young sir!" he answered, waving his hand towards his books. "I'm not a great newspaper reader except for a bit of politics. I never read about mysteries I've wrapped myself up in antiquarian pursuits since I retired. No!
Old Killick, with his hands in his pockets, rolled up and down his deck, chewing a quid of tobacco, and giving his opinions on the subject. "Pass Quebec! bless you, my dears, I'll undertake to pass the town guns any hour of the day or night you like to send me. What a rout they did make, to be sure, about their old river! They make just such a rout about their precious guns!
'There will not be rain; there will be frost, and you must be well wrapped if you must go, said Jenny. 'And tell them not to think of deputations to Captain Beauchamp yet. 'No, no deputations; let them send Killick, if they want to say anything, said Beauchamp. 'Wrong! the doctor cried; 'wrong! wrong! Six men won't hurt you more than one. And why check them when their feelings are up?
Whereupon old Killick patted the officer upon the back, and said, 'Ay, ay, my dear, that's right enough for them; but hang me if I don't show you all that an Englishman shall go at ease where a Frenchman daren't show his nose! Come along with me, my dear, and I'll show you this dangerous passage.
It was after eight o'clock, and the moon was coming up pale and white out of the sea, while the west was still bright after the clear sunset. I have a little model of a fishing dory that Georgie made for me, with its sprit-sail and killick and painter and oars and gaff all cleverly cut with the clumsiest of jackknives.
"Maybe ther's States Marshalls around, and a pretty bunch of deputies lying behind Sheriff Hank Killick, but there never was an official gang these folk couldn't beat a mile. Guess they're not duffing the private property of Hank Killick, or any of his boys. We best get busy our own way, which is the way Dug McFarlane took nearly five years to dream out."
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