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I don't believe you like me at all, Liza, or you'd come. She turned towards him and put her arms round his neck. 'Yer know I do, old cock, she said. 'I like yer better than anyone else in the world; but I can't go awy an' leave mother. 'Bli'me me if I see why; she's never been much ter you. She mikes yer slave awy ter pay the rent, an' all the money she earns she boozes.
'Well, she don't exactly sy it, but she sulks an' won't speak, an' then when I says anythin' she rounds on me an' calls me all the nimes she can think of. I'd give 'er a good 'idin', but some'ow I don't like ter! She mikes the plice a 'ell ter me, an' I'm not goin' ter stand it no longer! 'You'll ave ter sit it, then; yer can't chuck it. 'Yus I can, an' I would if you'd come along of me.
I'm anxious for him to get here. And I'm wondering whether he's light and blonde, with brown hair and blue eyes like his father, or dark, like my side of the family. "What do you make of it?" Jack whispered to Oliver. "What do I make of what?" demanded the other. "Of the old lady and her three Mikes?" replied Jack, scornfully. "Have you been asleep all this time?"
"Hello!" he called, then heard his own name pronounced. "Johnny Cantwell, by all that's holy!" The next moment he was shaking hands vigorously with two old friends from Nome. "Martin and me are bound for Saint Mikes," one of them explained. "Where the deuce did you come from, Johnny?" "The 'outside. Started for Stony River, but " "Stony River!"
The more outrageous the flattery we sent out, disguised as news, the more baldly truthful we were in those early morning rehearsals, with the mikes and telegs dead. Wilcox was our special meat. "Of course, it was foolhardy. One night a mixer in the room below us got his numbers mixed, killing a banquet program on a trunk channel and sending our outrageous burlesque out instead.
He handed Bud a penciled sketch from the workbench, adding, "Then drill the holes for the mikes and earphones the dimensions are there on the drawing. But watch it so you don't crack the plastic." While Bud complied, Tom began assembling the tiny electronic parts. In two hours the gear was ready for testing. Tom wiped his perspiring forehead and gave Bud a grin of satisfaction.
But the meeting with the priest had a strong influence upon every one of them. "He is sure to suffer a violent death some time or other," said Paul, "and he knows it, but it never mikes him gloomy. There are other French priests like him, too, boys, going thousands of miles, alone and unarmed, over this vast continent."
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