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"However," he said, "I'll be round in an hour, and if you haven't got me lovely mate ready look out!" Then he shook his fist sternly at them once more and said "I know yer dirty tricks and dodges, and if there's e'er a pin-scratch on me mate's body look out! If there's a pairin' of Dinny's toe-nail missin' look out!" 'Then he went out taking the coffin with him.
"Why they sez, sir its in one o' the heving peepers, they sez that the people wot's missin' hev been carted off in aeroplanes by some o' the other religionists wot wanted to git rid o' them, an' that the crank religiouses is all gone to " "Where?" smiled Bastin. "I don't think anybody knows where, sir!"
Lathrop sighed slightly. Miss Clegg echoed the sigh. "There never was a truer sayin' 'n' the one 't things goes by contraries," she continued presently. "Here I've been figgerin' on bein' so happy married, 'n' instid o' that I find myself missin' father every few minutes. There was lots o' good about father, particular when he was asleep.
When Bailey was a delegate to the Methodist Conference up in Boston, him and a crowd visited the deef and dumb asylum. When 'twas time to go, he was missin', and they found him in the female ward lookin' at the inmates. Said that the sight of all them women, every one of 'em not able to say a word, was the most wonderful thing ever he laid eyes on.
"'Pears like ter me ez it war jerked right out thar yes kase hyar air the missin' button, too." His air of unconsciousness puzzled the sheriff. "Do you know where you lost this scrap?" he asked. "Somewhars 'mongst the briers in the woods, I reckon," replied Barney.
"Well, all I kin say is she don't look it," and his shoulders twitched with delight. "The missin' link," he repeated from time to time, the utterance being always followed by a fresh convulsion of mirth as his sea-blue eyes roved to the visitor's grave face. "Do they come here, Cousin Jacob?" asked Sylvia uneasily, under cover of the rattle of the wagon, "Uncle Calvin and Aunt Martha?"
"An' ye did it too without an aim, for you had both eyes tight shut at the time," remarked Fergus. "Iss that the way they teach ye to shoot at sea?" "In course it is," replied Jenkins, gravely. "That's the beauty o' the blunderbuss. There's no chance o' missin', so what 'ud be the use o' keepin' yer eyes open, excep' to get 'em filled wi' smoke. You've on'y got to point straight, an' blaze away."
"I don't care what becomes of those horses," went on Tom. "Only I want my own." "You shall have it, lad. But you must put us on the trail o' them thieves. It runs in my mind thet I know this Bill Noxton, 'though perhaps not by thet handle. Thar used ter be a hoss thief down hyer called Slinky Bill, with a scar on his cheek an' one tooth missin' in front " "That's your man.
"He's loaned a good deal about five hundred thousand dollars to this young Cowperwood in Third Street, that's been handlin' city loan. They've been investin' it for themselves in one thing and another mostly in buyin' up street-railways." If he doesn't hold out, there'll be five hundred thousand dollars missin' from the city treasury which can't be put back.
May He keep a firm haud o' us, and guide us in the richt road, and bring us back gin we wander, and tell us a' we need tae know till the gloamin' come. Gither us in then, we pray Thee, and a' we luve, no a bairn missin', and may we sit doon for ever in oor ain Father's House. Amen."
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