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They're bound to get me." "I wish there were time to hear your side." "But, Frona, I am innocent. "S-sh!" She laid her hand on his arm to hush him, and turned her attention to the witness. "So the noospaper feller, he fight like anything; but Pierre and me, we pull him into the shack. He cry and stand in one place " "Who cried?" interrupted the prosecuting lawyer. "Him. That feller there."
Well, my dear, you'll have to wait while I get it out of the safe. I don't leave valuables like that laying round like the noospaper." She disappeared for a moment, and returned with a bit of twisted-up tissue paper from which she unwrapped the brooch. Charity, as she looked at it, felt a stir of warmth at her heart. She held out an eager hand.
Now I once heared of a feller who had a job forecastin' the weather for a noospaper, and he'd allus say right out positive whether it 'ud rain or shine it was allus goin' to be bright and clear or dark and stormy and along come a spell o' weather and every day for a week he said it was going to rain, and I'll be singed if there was a cloud in the sky all through them seven days and the feller lost his job.
Finally business got so bad the crew began to murmur, an' I was at my wits' ends to please 'em; when one mornin', havin' passed a restless night, I picks up a noospaper and sees in it that 'Next Saturday's steamer is a weritable treasure- ship, takin' out twelve million dollars, and the jewels of a certain prima donna valued at five hundred thousand. 'Here's my chance, says I, an' I goes to sea and lies in wait for the steamer.
"Are you a noospaper a-putin' in articles about people who don't want to see 'emselves in print, which I knows your 'abits, my late 'usband 'avin' bin a printer on a paper which bust up, not 'avin' the money to pay wages, thro' which, there was doo to him the sum of one pound seven and sixpence halfpenny, which I, bein' 'is widder, ought to 'ave, not that I expects to see it on this side of the grave oh, dear, no!" and she gave a shrill, elfish laugh.
I've got a noospaper, an' only four weeks' old, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer." "Has the United States and Spain " "Not so fast, not so fast!" The long Yankee waved his arms for silence, cutting off Frona's question which was following fast on that of Corliss. "But have you read it?" they both demanded. "Unh huh, every line, advertisements an' all." "Then do tell me," Frona began. "Has "
Ah, them was fine times, they was, for the watermen on Hardway; for they usest to make a rare harvest a-taking off witnesses and prisoners' `friends, as they calls 'em, and lawyers and noospaper chaps to the flagship, they did. The old chaps called the signal gun `old Fitzblazes's Eight o'clock Gun, sir. They did so, sir, yezsir!"
"Then w'at is it, guv'nor? I've heerd of the 'Orse an' 'Ound, the Chicken's Friend, the Cat, an' the Bee; but the Firefly leaves me thinkin'. Is it a noospaper?" "Something of the sort." "All right, sir. Jump in. We'll soon be on its track." The hansom scampered off to Fleet-st.
"Jehoshaphat! Let's shake hands on that, Danvers. No resk this time, Arlington, is there? You recollect, don't you? the day I first seed you and Hoopsnake on the roof of his flatboat? I read t'other day in the noospaper that Harry Clay met the aforesaid in the court-house in New York. The sarpent put out his hand, but Harry wouldn't tech it. By gum, Clay was smarter than me."
If he does he'll make things mighty interestin' for Dunlavey likely he'll remember who was in the crowd which beat him up. If he dies " His eyes flashed savagely. "Well, if he dies you boys can go as far as you like an' I'll go with you without doin' any kickin'." "What's goin' to be done with that noospaper of his'n?" inquired Ace. "You reckon she'll miss fire till he's well again?"
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