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He looked at the Pug, and the Pug winked knowingly with his half-closed left eyelid. Shluker reached out for a chair, and, finding it suspiciously wobbly, straddled it warily. "Mabbe I've been in wrong," he admitted. "What's the lay?" "Me," said Pinkie, "I was down to Charlie's this afternoon havin' a little lay-off, an' "
Either you goes over ter the safe an' opens it yerself, or else" he paused and produced a small bottle from his pocket "this is nitro-glycerin', an' we opens it fer you with this. Only if we does the job we does it proper. We ties you up and sets you against the door of the safe before we touches off the 'soup, an' mabbe if yer a good guesser you can guess the rest."
By the time I get to England I'll be well set up with a black moustache and mabbe, ye'll hardly know me!" "How did you get rid of the yellow robe?" "Oh, easy enough, and without any ceremony of disgrace whatever. Shure, half the Burmans you meet have worn it for, p'r'aps, a year or two but it's not everyone who has the vocation." "I can't understand your ever taking to it."
Wot you wanter yell fer?" "You mind your own business and do as you're told!" said Helena tartly. "Go in there and stay with the Patriarch." "Sure," said the Flopper, grinning a little now. "Sure t'ing but youse needn't get on yer ear about it. Cheer up, mabbe de Doc'll be out to-night, an' if he don't hear youse yellin' himself will I tell him youse are out on de beach t'rowin' a fit?"
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