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I'd got the car with me. We've been here nearly two months now, and I love it more every day. Don't miss men a bit, either." This last in an inimitable tone, half nonchalant, half defiant. "I expect they do most of the missing." "Thanks, awfully. However, I may tell you the family's been rather narky " "I beg your pardon?" "Narky. Like a nark." "Of course. How stupid of me!
Naturally, I thought, Plummer would prefer Hewitt; but in this case I should for once be ahead of my friend, and have the pleasure of relating the circumstances of the capture to him, instead of listening, as usual, to his own quiet explanations of the manner in which the case had been brought to a successful issue. So I took my hat and went. "Best let me go in front," whispered the "nark."
So it looks to me as if he has turned nark and Crewe has put him on to watch you." "Can you describe this boy more closely?" "Well, sir, I don't know if I can say anything more about him except that he has red hair and big bright eyes that are too large for his face." "I thought so," said Holymead as if speaking to himself. "It's the same boy." "What did you say, sir?" asked Kemp.
"'I vunder, said a stout, elderly Jewess, 'how der bolice know dose shentlemens gom to lotch mit me. Zumpotty must haf toldt dem. "'Yus, agreed an evicted tenant of doubtful occupation, 'some bloomin' nark has giv 'em away. Good job too. Tain't playin' the game for to go pottin' at the coppers like that there. Coppers 'as got their job to do same as what we 'ave. You know that, Mrs. Kosminsky.
To be misunderstood in the circles in which Mr. Buffin moved meant something more than the mere risk of being treated with cold displeasure. He began to explain with feverish eagerness. "Strike me, Sid," he stammered, "it ain't like that. It's all right. Blimey, you don't fink I'm a nark?" Mr. Marks chewed a straw in silence. "I'm layin' for him, Sid," babbled Mr. Buffin. "That's true.
He added with a snort: "Thought I were a copper's nark. Good as told me so." Joses stole down the gangway to the door. When he came back Monkey was holding the bucket to Four-Pound-the-Second, who was drinking noisily. "It was only the cat," he said. "I heard her scuttle." "Don't it smell funny?" whispered Monkey, swirling the bucket gently under the horse's muzzle.
Kemp, in a reproving tone. "I don't know what the young generation is coming to." "If you want to send him word about me, you can tell him that I'm not going to be a thief," said Joe defiantly. "No," said Mr. Kemp tauntingly, "you'd sooner be a nark." "Yes, I would," said the boy. "And that's what you are now," declared the man wrathfully. "You're a nark for that fellow Crewe.
Flexen felt that he had before him an important witness, for he took a violent dislike to him, and he had observed, in the course of his many years' experience in the detection of crime, that the most important witness in hounding down a criminal was very often of a repulsive type, the nark type. William Roper was of that type, but his story was indeed startling.
I looked out of the spy window in the back of the cab and saw my "nark" standing staring in the middle of the road. At Baker Street I took a ticket for the Edgeware Road and there I jumped into a train for Aldgate Station. When I once more found myself in the streets I looked carefully around me and to my relief was able to assure myself that no one was following me.
"I'll go," Plummer said to me hurriedly. "Plainly somebody's spotted me in the street, and I may as well hear him." I knew very well, of course, what Moon meant by a 'nark. A 'nark' is an informer, a spy among criminals who sells the police whatever information he can scrape up. Could it be possible that this man had anything to tell about Mayes?
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