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And if the invalid shouldn't be so well, she will be sure to send one of us down to call you, so that you may play the doctor again. So don't shoot at sight. "'He isn't a shooting man, struck in Niclaus. "'I never shoot before making sure there's a reason for it at any rate, said Davidson. "Bamtz let out a sickly snigger. The Frenchman alone got up to make a bow to Davidson's careless nod.
He looked then like a devil; but a man without hands, unable to load or handle a weapon, can at best go for one only with his teeth. From that danger Niclaus felt certain he could always defend himself. "The couple were alone together loafing in the common-room of that infamous hotel when Fector turned up.
Niclaus, sailing about like a native in a prau, was, in his own words, 'familiar with the locality. The huge Frenchman, walking up and down the room with his stumps in the pockets of his jacket, stopped short in surprise. 'Comment? Bamtz! Bamtz! "He had run across him several times in his life. He exclaimed: 'Bamtz! 'We can do with him what we like, he asserted confidently. 'Oh, yes.
Towards the end of my time here we began to hear talk of a maimed Frenchman who had been seen here and there. But no one knew then that he had foregathered with Niclaus and lived in his prau. I daresay he put Niclaus up to a thing or two. Anyhow, it was a partnership. Niclaus was somewhat afraid of the Frenchman on account of his tempers, which were awful.
"There, the evening before, Fector had met a precious couple, a partnership even more queer than the Portuguese and the Chinaman. One of the two was Niclaus you know. Why! the fellow with a Tartar moustache and a yellow complexion, like a Mongolian, only that his eyes were set straight and his face was not so flat. One couldn't tell what breed he was. A nondescript beggar.
Sixtus Beckmesser. 7. Fritz Kohtner. 8. Niclaus Vogel. 9. Augustin Moser. 10. Hannss Schwartz. 11. Ulrich Eisslinger. 12. Hannss Foltz."
Then, catching sight of them, as it were, he held them in front of his eyes, cursing and blaspheming and bewailing his misfortune and his helplessness, till Niclaus quieted him down. "But it was his mind that planned out the affair and it was his spirit which carried the other two on.
"All the four were sitting again round the table. Bamtz not having the pluck to open his mouth, it was Niclaus who, as a collective voice, called out to him thickly to come out soon and join in a drink. "'I think I'll have to stay some little time in there, to help her look after the boy, Davidson answered without stopping. "This was a good thing to say to allay a possible suspicion.
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