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"Speak up to the others." "Ah, the others!" returned John. "They're a nice lot, ain't they? You say this cruise is bungled. Ah! by gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled, you would see! We're that near the gibbet that my neck's stiff with thinking on it. You've seen 'em, maybe, hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen p'inting 'em out as they go down with the tide.
"Oh it's you!" he exclaimed, recognising me through my soot. "Mr. Plinlimmon " I began. "I didn't do it. I didn't " He broke off. "For Heaven's sake, how are we to get down out of this?" "There's no way on the street side," I answered, "unless " He took me up short. "The street? We can't go that way it's as much as my neck's worth. Yours, too." "Mr. Trapp's waiting for me," I answered stupidly.
"Never mind the lady, if you be wise," said one of the watermen; "the constable will be here in an instant. I'll give your honour a cast across the water in a moment. It may be as much as your neck's worth. Shall only charge a Jacobus."
My neck's in the noose, ain't it?" screamed the former convict. "Has everybody in the park got to know we're hiding Dingwell here? Better put it in the paper. Better " "Enough of that, Dan. Dad is running this show. Obey orders, and that lets you out," retorted the young man curtly. "You've met my sister, haven't you, Dave?" The cattleman smiled at the girl. "Sure.
At a bound the submarine boy possessed himself of this weapon. He got it, just in time, too, to wheel and face Fred Radwin, threatening that fellow with the heavy butt-end of the driver's recent weapon. "Get up behind the boy, you fool!" hissed Radwin. "Sure, I can't," moaned the fellow, rubbing himself, real anguish sounding in his voice. "My neck's broke!"
I'll tell you what sort of hunter I should like to have for these parts. I'd have him half-bred, short in the leg, short in the pastern, short in the back, a good sloping shoulder, broad in the chest and the forehead, long in the belly, and just the least bit over fifteen hands eh, Mr. Thoms? I don't think beauty's of much consequence when your neck's in question.
When the foot-race was concluded, the three hunters hung about, looking on at the various games for some time, and then strolled towards the lake. "Ye may be thankful yer neck's whole," said Joe, grinning, as Henri rubbed his shoulder with a rueful look. "An' we'll have to send that Injun and his family a knife and some beads to make up for the fright they got."
He's working hard, and his neck's so thin that his Adam's apple sticks out like a push-button, but he gets his reward in finding his crop running much higher than he had figured. He's as keen as ever he was for power and prosperity. He wants success, and night and day he's scheming for it.
And I like pretty things. It ain't fair! That was one reason why I broke with Jo. It wasn't only his mother. I told him he couldn't ever give me the things I want anyway. You can't help wanting 'em seeing them all round every day on women that aren't half as good-looking as you are! I want low-cut dresses too. My neck's like milk.
When a man's neck's at stake when a matter of life and death's at issue I don't like to keep any one longer in suspense than I absolutely need. Delay would be cruel." As he spoke he lifted his eyes and caught Elma Clifford's. The judge let his own drop again in speechless agony. Elma's never flinched.
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