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But the sphere pulsed slowly, as if half pleased by the sound Norden made with his lips. So this is how Orkins escaped from the plant, Taylor thought. Orkins had imitated the creatures. They had spared him as a pet, like a man keeps a talking parrot. Norden stood very still, whistling while the sphere approached. A little tentacle of flame reached out toward him.
"Well, sir, you can have him let me see Monday was a week, when you lost him; next Monday'll be another week, when I found him; that'll be a fortnit. Suppose we ses next Tooesday week?" "Suppose we say to-morrow." "Oh!" said Sam, "then I thinks you'll be sucked in! The chances are, Mr. Orkins, you won't see him at all. Why, sir, you don't know how them chaps carries on their business.
So help me, sir. Sergeant o' the guard!" The echo of the sentry's bellow rattled against the bleak factory buildings. A sphere bobbed up through the hole in the roof. Orkins opened his mouth to scream, but Norden clapped his hand over the man's lips, choking him off. "Quiet!" Taylor ordered hoarsely. He addressed the sentry: "See that thing? It means death to you, to all of us if it finds us.
'Well, I ses, 'sir, to be 'onest with you, don't you mention that there fact to anybody but me' because when a lidy goes out of her mind over a lorst dawg up goes the price, and you can't calculate bank-rate, as they ses. The price'll go up fablous, Mr. Orkins; there's nothin' rules the market like that there.
Whether we like it or not, we're allies." Norden's undershot jaw moved in a grin. "I know about the spheres, Captain," Norden replied. "I overheard your remarks to Mr. Masters. I've listened to Orkins' babble." "Will you help us?" "I will bargain with you." "For your life? You know I can't do anything about that.
Let 'em 'ave it, Orkins! don't spare 'em." I wish I had known what this meant. I must say they did all that mortals could do with their mouths to honour their future member. Hogarth's "March to Finchley" was outdone by that march to the Barnstaple town hall.
Before the band struck up, however, I was greeted with such enthusiastic outbursts that they might have brought tears into the eyes of any one less firm than myself. "Orkins for ever!" roared the multitude. It almost stunned me. Never could I have dreamt my popularity would be so great. "Orkins for ever!" again and again they repeated, each volley, if possible, louder than before. "Bravo, Orkins!
Let him look to his own cirkit the 'Orne Cirkit where my brother told me as at a trial at Guildford the tenant of that there house wouldn't pay his rent. For why? Because they was so pestered wi' wermin. And what do you think Orkins told the jury? He was counsel for the tenant.
"But not too hard," Masters added. "If we're going to be rabbits, human values will change. Men who run into holes will live to eat turnips, those who bare their teeth won't. Orkins might be the forefather of a new race a helluva race. Come on, Orkins. Get out. Hurry up, Father Abraham, or I'll drag you out." Orkins, cringing, emerged.
On one or two occasions I found this quality of great service to me in matters relating to the discovery of lost dogs. Drink, no doubt, has its advantages to those who do not drink. "Muster Orkins, sir," said he, "beggin' your pardon, sir, but might I have a word with you, Muster Orkins, if it ain't a great intrusion, sir?" I saw my man at once, and showed him that I understood business.
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