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Updated: September 11, 2025
I disengaged myself Mr MacGinnis strangely quiescent during the process and was on my feet in the safety of the darkness just as the reinforcement touched earth. This time I did not wait. My hunger for fight had been appeased to some extent by my brush with Buck, and I was satisfied to have achieved safety with honour.
My partner's speciality is action. I supply the strategy. Say, can't you see you're up against it? Why be foolish? 'You think you're certain to win? 'It's a cinch. 'Then why trouble to come here and see me? I appeared to have put into words the smouldering thought which was vexing Mr MacGinnis. He burst into speech. 'Ahr chee! Sure! What's de use? Didn't I tell youse?
I bin rubberin. Aw, quit yer foolin', Sam, where is he? 'I couldn't tell you just where he is at the present moment, I said precisely. 'Ahr chee! Let me swot him one! begged the man with the pistol; a most unlovable person. I could never have made a friend of him. 'Cheese it, you! said Mr MacGinnis. The other cheesed it once more, regretfully.
I suppose it was the recollection of the same words in the mouth of Buck MacGinnis that made me sit up with a jerk and stare at him. 'We'll make a great team, he said, still in that same cosy voice. 'If ever there was a case of fifty-fifty, this is it. You've got the kid, and I've got you. I can't get away with him without your help, and you can't get away with him unless you square me.
Why not turn it up, sonny? You're only wasting your time. 'Do you sleep lightly, Mr Fisher? 'I don't get you. 'You had better do so tonight. Buck MacGinnis is back again. There was silence at the other end of the wire. Then I heard him swear softly. The significance of the information had not been lost on Mr Fisher. 'Is that straight? 'It is. 'You're not stringing me? 'Certainly not.
I went down and opened the door, holding my pistol in readiness against the unexpected. Sam came first. Mr MacGinnis, who followed, suggested no such idea. He was muttering moodily to himself, and he eyed me askance. I showed them into the classroom and switched on the light. The air was full of many odours.
I had observed at a previous interview his peculiar gift for laying bare his soul by this means of mode of expression. A man of silent habit, judged by the more conventional standard of words, he was almost an orator in expectoration. 'Mr MacGinnis agrees with me, said Sam cheerfully. 'Do we take them down? Have we your permission to assume Position Two of these Swedish exercises?
There was a masked man leaning against the wall by Glossop's classroom. He was short and sturdy. The Buck MacGinnis gang seemed to have been turned out on a pattern. Externally, they might all have been twins. This man, to give him a semblance of individuality, had a ragged red moustache. He was smoking a cigar with the air of the warrior taking his rest. 'Hello! he said, as we appeared.
From the point of view of an opponent, there was this merit about Mr MacGinnis, that he was not subtle. He could be counted on with fair certainty to do the direct thing. Sooner or later he would make another of his vigorous frontal attacks upon the stronghold. The only point to be decided was whether he would make it that night. Would professional zeal cause him to omit his beauty sleep?
'Where are you going? 'I'm going to call up the police-station. 'Peter. 'Yes? 'Was was that man the one you spoke of? 'Yes, that was Buck MacGinnis. He and Sam have gone into partnership. She hesitated. 'I'm sorry, she said. I was half-way up the stairs by this time. I stopped and looked over the banisters. 'Sorry? 'I didn't believe you this afternoon. 'Oh, that's all right, I said.
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