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Thus as Spike crept away with head a-droop, the Old Un, all unnoticed, stole after him, his old eyes very bright and birdlike, and, as he followed, keeping in the shade of hedge and tree as much as possible, he whispered a word to himself over and over again: "Lorgorramighty!"
"Well, ma'am, Joe an' the Spider's been a-seekin' an' a-searchin' of that there wood, an' they found," here the Old Un leaned nearer yet and whispered harshly, "they found a coat button! Lorgorramighty!" he exclaimed suddenly, pointing a trembling bony finger, "what's took th' lad look!"
"Why oh, Lorgorramighty, you don't mean t' say as this ain't 'im? Why, 'e 's confessed, Guv; I 'eard 'im!" Ravenslee smiled gently and shook his head again. "But he has been sick, Old Un; he was hurt, you know, when he saved my life." "But, Lord, Guv, if 'e 's confessed " "He has been sick, Old Un, and when we are sick the wisest of us are apt to say silly things even I did, so they tell me."
For a long moment Ravenslee sat languidly twisting the button in thin white fingers, then flicked it far out over the balustrade down among the dense evergreens in the garden below. The Old Un gasped, Joe gaped, and the Spider sighed audibly. "Lorgorramighty! Oh, Guv, Guv " quavered the old man, "you've throwed away our cloo our blood-cloo th' p'lice you've lost our evidence "
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