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We are not so far from civilisation that you dare injure me and my companions. The news would be carried to Brisbane, Adelaide, or Sydney, and one of her Majesty's war ships on the station would soon be here to call you to account." "How'd they get the noos?" said the man, mockingly. "In the same way that you did: the blacks would hear it." "Let 'em," said the man, fiercely.
We shoot a batch now and then, but the others go on working like beavers and they do a mighty deal of harm. They're beautifully organized, but they don't draw on such good human material as we, and I reckon they don't pay in results more than ten cents on a dollar of trouble. But there they are. They're the intelligence officers and their business is just to forward noos.
Why, who but old Peggy, the 'oman wot you put out at Clapham." "Well, never mind Peggy, now, Bill; I want to ask you what you have done with Margaret Joplin, whom, sly seducer that you are, you carried off from " "Why, man, Peggy be Joplin, and Joplin be Peggy! And it's for that piece of noos that I got all them pretty new picters of his Majesty Bill, my namesake, God bliss 'im!"
You see we got so damaged in a gale that came on to blow the wery next day that we've bin forced to run here for repairs. Skipper Lockley's away up at this here minit to see his wife leastwise, he's waitin' outside till one o' the parsons goes and breaks the noos to her.
Pa looked at him rather vacantly, apparently straining his memory in order to recognise the new-comer. It was plain that as a personal matter he had no immediate use for Alf Rylett; but he presently nodded his head. "Sitting by the fire," he confirmed. "Getting a bit warm. It's cold to-night. Is there any noos, Alf Rylett?"
Who'd make 'er gruel? Who'd polish 'er shoes every mornin' till you could see to shave in 'em, though she don't never put 'em on? Who'd make 'er bed an' light 'er fires an' fetch 'er odd bits o' coal? An' who'd read the noos to 'er, an' " "Why, Slidder," interrupted Dr McTougall, "you said just now that you could not read."
"Bless 'ee, Peter bless 'ee, lad! an' a old man's blessin' be no light thing 'specially such a old, old man as I be an' it bean't often as I feels in a blessin' sperrit but oh, Peter! 'twere me as found ye, weren't it?" "Why, to be sure it was, Ancient, very nearly five months ago." "An' I be allus ready wi' some noos for ye, bean't I?" "Yes, indeed!"
Ah, you'll never find the way; follow me, I have some questions to put to you." "Nothin' agin my carakter, I hopes, your honour," said Beck, timidly. "Oh, no!" "Noos of the mattris, then?" exclaimed Beck, joyfully.
The newspaper we found that Christmas Eve in the Chateau was of tremendous importance, for Bommaerts had pricked out in the advertisement the very special second cipher of the Wild Birds. That proved that Ivery was at the back of the Swiss business. But Blenkiron made doubly sure. 'I considered the time had come, he said, 'to pay high for valuable noos, so I sold the enemy a very pretty de-vice.
I'll wait again for what ye've got to tell," she said, and finished her cup at a gulp, smoothing her apron. The farmer then lifted his head. "Mother, if you've done, you'll oblige me by going to bed," he said. "We want the kitchen." "A-bed?" cried Mrs. Sumfit, with instantly ruffled lap. "Upstairs, mother; when you've done not before." "Then bad's the noos! Something have happened, William.
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