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The result was a general stampede. Red Gallagher alone remained motionless. Grim and dangerously silent, he held a pistol within a few inches of Quest's forehead. "If my number's up," he exclaimed ferociously, "it won't be you who'll take me." "I think it will," Quest answered. "Put that gun away." Gallagher hesitated. Quest's influence over him was indomitable.
"I've only enough juice to run us back to Tilbury, sir, if we put about now!" came the shouted report. "It's easy to TALK!" roared Rogers. "If one of these big 'uns gets us broadside on, our number's up!"... "Cutter putting over for Sheppey coast, sir!" bellowed the man in the bows. Stringer raised himself, weakly, and sought to peer through the driving spray and rain-mist. "By God!
"Great mistake," Bannon rejoined cheerfully. "Always take the number before entering. Then, if anything happens ... However, that's a good-looking chap at the wheel doesn't look as if he'd run you into any trouble." "Oh, I fancy not," said the Englishman, bored. "Well, you never can tell. The number's on the lamp. Make a note of it and be on the safe side. Or trust me I never forget numbers."
"Layin' pitchforks for yer feet same as the Psalmist says. Hosses is much the very same as men. Kilted cattle, as the sayin' is. Once they turn agin' you your number's up. And they got somefin' agin' you. No fault o' yours, I know godly genelman like you. But where it is there it is!" He sat in his buggy and wiped his dewy eye. "And there's the dorg, Mr. Joses. Big dorg, too!"
The messenger disappeared, and he turned on Waverley. "The number's probably a false one a board slipped over the real number, as they did in the Dalston case when some American toughs went through that jeweller a month or two back. We might as well look into it, though. These people are wily customers, or they wouldn't have kept you from seeing the rest of the gang.
When mother, son, and sister were spoken of, they were called a Trinity, and to this Marguerite herself bore witness when she said, with charming modesty, "Such boon is mine, to feel the amity That God hath putten in our trinity, Wherein to make a third, I, all unfitted To be that number's shadow, am admitted."
She, her mother, Louise of Savoy, and her brother, Francis I., were called a "trinity," to the existence of which Marguerite bore witness in the poem: "Such boon is mine—to feel the amity That God hath putten in our trinity Wherein to make a third, I, all unfitted To be that number's shadow, am admitted."
No one 'ld mind fightin' for 'im. It's 'is blighted Gov'nment wot's all bloomin' wrong blast 'em!" The reply came from a young man evidently of sedentary occupation a shop-assistant or clerk: "You're all right, too, old sport; but don't you forget the other feller's proclamation. If you 'aven't got no uniform, your number's up for lead pills, an' don't you forget it.
'Well then with yourself that makes three. 'Oh me! and Peter, with a wag of his kind old head, modestly excused himself. The number's at any rate small enough for any individual dropping out to be too dreadfully missed. Therefore, to put it in a nutshell, take care, my boy that's all that you're not! 'I've got to keep on humbugging? Lance wailed.
But he heard, instead, the voice of his own secretary: "Central says the number's been discontinued, sir." And he hung up the receiver, and sat motionless again. The dummy had disappeared! To Montague this incident meant a change in the prospect of his whole life. It was the collapse of all his hopes.
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