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He was as full of rage as a turkey-cock, his face purple, and his short figure shaking with anger. He stood on a seat in the yacht, and dominated the whole fleet. He turned on the constable of Bailey's Harbor as if he had expected his arrival. "You go plumb to blazes, Eb Flanders! Go on! Git outer here! You a kunsterble! You aint fit to ketch muck-worms!
The policemen refused to allow them to enter, probably because they did not wish it to be seen how they had been keeping watch. This made Eb very angry. He seemed to feel that the dignity of his office, "Kunsterble of this here island," was not getting its proper respect. But I think that the uniforms and brass buttons of the policemen rather frightened him.
"There goes the crooks," remarked Captain Bannister, "safe in the protection of the kunsterble." "Yes," said I, "they'll have to hurry back, and get the Professor down under the wharf before the 'May Queen' arrives. She's due about three o'clock, with a lot more money on board for 'em." I was anxious to get the Captain in the right frame of mind toward the twins.
"Be you a officer?" "You'll find out whether I am or not!" said the furious policeman, standing up and blowing his whistle again. "Then watcher doin' here?" "I'm here mindin' my own business, I was sent here to look after this house orders of the Chief. Who in thunder are you?" "This here's the Kunsterble," said Gregory the Gauger, nodding his head toward Eb, "an' we've ketched the burglars.
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