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"I beg your pardon, my friend," said Oscar, "I haven't the pleasure of your acquaintance." "Oh, you haven't?" "No, I can't say that I ever saw you before." "Is that so?" "Indeed it is true, my friend." "What a pity! why, we are old friends." The thief's pals were drawing near. "You are mistaken, my friend," said Oscar, adding: "And I must kindly request you to move off and not disturb us."
Do you remember how we found some fool's gold, and we thought it was gold and hid it on the shore of the lake, and we were going to buy a ship? Do you remember? You haven't forgotten all our good times, while you've been so famous, have you?" "Oh no, no!" "But why don't Carl, why don't you why can't you care more now?" "Why, I do care! You're one of the bulliest pals I have, you and Ray."
"I know it just as I know that you, about May fifteenth, will pick up a dozen or more pals who are whole crooks and half sailors; that you will then leave on a boat, probably a steam yacht, May twenty-sixth, bound for Washington; and that the job of bin-cracking you will engage in is to be pulled off May twenty-seventh to twenty-ninth inclusive."
Tom Ellison kicked uncomfortably at the chair he was trying to balance on one leg. "It's so hard to explain." "Have a dash at it." "Well, look here, Dick, we've always been pals. What?" "Of course we have." "We went to the Empire last Boatrace night together " "And got chucked out simultaneously." "In fact, we've always been pals. What?" "Of course we have."
I knew I could get away, but I did not think it would be so easy. That was due to the bogus prisoners, my friends, the spies. 'I made great pals with them. On Christmas night we were very jolly together. I think I spotted every one of them the first day. I bragged about my past and all I had done, and I told them I was going to escape. They backed me up and promised to help.
As for us, we had made up our minds to enjoy ourselves while we could, and we had come to his way of thinking, that most likely nothing was known of our being in the cattle affair that Starlight and the boy had been arrested for. We knew nothing would drag it out of Starlight about his pals in this or any other job.
I'm not going to peach on my pals." "We'll see about that!" burst out Tom. Then he noticed that a dining-room window behind where the burglar was kneeling was open. Doubtless the intruder had entered that way, and intended to escape in the same manner. "I'm going to shoot," announced Tom, and, aiming his rifle at the open window, where the bullet would do no damage, he pressed the trigger.
He closed his mouth and blushed crimson. Big Jack and his pals smiled at each other meaningly. "Well?" demanded Coulson. "It's not true," mumbled Sam. "Didn't you go with her?" "Yes but " "But what?" "I had to." "What do you mean?" There was no help for it. "It was she carried me off!" Sam burst out. There was an instant's silence in the room. The white men stared at the unexpected answer.
"Now, if he's in there don't you two go and send for him to come outside to you; nothin' like that. See? You go right in after him and nail him right in front of his own pals. Understand? I want him and his bunch and the reporters all to know that this here alleged drag of his that the newspapers've been beefin' so loud about is all bogus. And then you fetch him here to me and I'll do the rest.
One had ginger hair, and a crop of ginger beard bristled on his chin. Their eyes were hollow and sunken, and glittered and roamed unmeaningly with the glare of insanity. They glanced with a horrible suspicion at their pals, and knew them not. The one with the ginger stubble muttered to himself. Their clothes were torn with brambles, and prickles from thorn-bushes still clung round their puttees.
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