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This suggestion he made to a young lady from the bar, who had followed him into the room. The negus was brought and paid for by Gager, who then requested that they might be left there undisturbed for five minutes. The young lady promised to do her best, and then closed the door. "And now, Mr. 'Oward, what can I do for you?" said Mr. Cann, the burglar.
"'Ow many times 'ave you seen the girl when she was n't with young Rodaine?" "Very few, that's true." "And 'ow many times 'ave you seen Judge Richmond?" "I have n't ever seen him." "You won't if Mother 'Oward knows anything. 'E ain't able to get out. 'E's sick apoplexy a stroke. Rodaine's taken advantage of it." "How?" "'Ow does anybody take advantage of somebody that's sick?
"I thought " "Installments!" the Cornishman burst out. "Ten per cent. down and the rest when they catch me. Installments!" He jabbed forth a heavy finger and punched Fairchild in the ribs. "Where's Mother 'Oward? Won't I knock 'er eyes out?" Fairchild laughed he couldn't help it in spite of the fact that five hundred dollars might have gone a long way toward unwatering that shaft.
Howard's waistcoat with the end of his cane. "And now, Billy, how about the young woman?" "I haven't set eyes on her these six weeks, Mr. 'Oward. I never see her but once in my life, Mr. 'Oward; or, maybe, twice, for one's memory is deceitful; and I don't know that I ever wish to see her again. She ain't one of my sort, Mr. 'Oward. I likes 'em soft, and sweet, and coming.
"'Eathen? sez 'Oward. 'Me a 'eathen! I was born in Iowa, and I'm a blooming good American." "'What, you an American citizen? sez the captain. 'Born in my own state, and painted up like Sitting Bull on the warpath? Get off this ship, sez 'e, wild, 'get off this ship, or I'll put you in irons and take you back to the blooming jail you escaped from!
"Just how crazy is she, Harry?" "'Er? Plumb daft! Of course, as Mother 'Oward says, there 's times when she 's straight but they don't last long. And, if she 'd given 'er testimony in writing, Mother 'Oward says it all might 'ave been different, and we 'd not 'ave 'ad anything to worry about." "In writing?" "Yes, she 's 'arfway sane then. It seems 'er mind 's disconnected, some wye.
'Ow does anybody get a 'old on a person? Through money! Judge Richmond 'ad a lot of it. Then 'e got sick. Rodaine, 'e got 'old of that money. Now Judge Richmond 'as to ask 'im for every penny he gets and 'e does what Rodaine says." "But a judge " "Judges is just like anybody else when they're bedridden and only 'arf their faculties working. The girl, so Mother 'Oward tells me, is about twenty now.
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