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Updated: June 21, 2025
Now to be sure I thought I was done; but I noticed the dog seemed to perk up a bit, and next there was some one whispered outside the door, and I very near laughed out loud, for I knew it was my father and mother that had got out of bed with the noise. 'Whatever is it? says my mother. 'Hush! I don't know, says my father, excited-like, 'don't disturb the boy. I hope he didn't hear nothing.
"Gosh! but ain't this the life, though?" muttered the watcher, thrilled to the core with what was hovering over his head yet not so much as making the slightest movement that would attract attention. If discovery must come, Perk was determined that no act of his would hasten it along and no responsibility for the tragedy if such there followed could be laid at his door.
"Take me with you," insisted the other, "and let me ask him a question or two that any honorable man could answer. They don't call him the Unspeakable Perk for nothing, Miss Polly." "It's just because they don't understand his type. Nor do you, Fitz, and so you mistrust him." "I understand that you've shown more interest in him than in any one you know," said the other miserably.
That accomplished he made haste to secure all the papers as well as the ledger which Kearns had been so eager to destroy when realizing that at last his scorn for the minions of the law had reaped its inevitable result the pitcher gone once too often to the well and that his game was up. "What next, Boss?" Perk was asking, "mean to kidnap both o' these guys Jack?"
Ten minutes, fifteen, passed then Jack again caught his chum's arm and with a finger pressed on his own lips to betoken the necessity for silence, pointed to something ahead that must have just caught his attention. And Perk, looking, saw a sight that afforded him a sense of satisfaction both deep and profound. "Hot Ziggetty! so this is where he dropped down, is it?"
You get int' your best clothes and perk up a bit; you can boss it over Janet. Her name is a soundin' cymbal or soon will be! She's got her mother in her strong. It's sort o' wrung out of me, since Janet's acted up so, though I had meant t' keep my own knowledge." "I don't know as she's done anything much, Ma; jest trapsed on the Hills some an' turned her nose up at boarders mostly. Mr.
"Guess you hit the nail on the head, Jack," muttered the convinced Perk, for they were at some little distance away from the consulting trio, and their whispers could never have been heard with the dead leaves on nearby palmetto trees keeping up their harsh clashing when whipped by the gusts of wind.
"Yes, and I reckon now you got your old right ear touched up again, Perk, for I can see streaks of half-dried blood running down your cheek." "Yeah, he nicked me okay, an' if this keeps on much further I'll soon be taken for the Manassa Mauler, 'cause it'll gimme a cauliflower ear. Who are these two lads, Jack look like they might belong to the Coast Guard."
I kinder guess now," Perk went on to say, "she bust out o' that little fog cloud right to the south a'swoopin' up the coast, you notice, partner, don't you?" "Sure is," assented Jack, as though that small circumstance assumed some importance in his eyes, as well as those of his comrade.
It goes away and leaves things dark and dismal, and there may be hail and sleet and rain, and the outlook is all dark, but presently the clouds move and the fog blows away and the path of light twinkles over the big ocean and the very grasses of the hillsides perk up and the birds try to split their little throats with song. They are all sun-worshippers.
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