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Updated: June 20, 2025
From his pocket came the thin, metal insignia case; and, lifting it with the tiny tweezers, moistening the adhesive side with his tongue, Jimmie Dale stooped down and fastened a gray seal on the floor by the Pippin's side.
They say they'll undercut me till my trade's gone. I'm too old to fight them!..." John called to his mother and Eleanor. "Come here a minute," he said, and when they had done so, he told them of Pippin's offer and threat. "What do you think of that?" he demanded. "I think we should fight them," said Eleanor. "So we will," John replied.
He didn't understand at first when I was pawing all his stuff over, but when he saw me try the things on, and tumbled that I was was going to play Silver Mag, he said he wouldn't stand for it. Ha, ha! Silver Mag!" The Pippin's voice had taken on a queer mumbling note, and his mind seemed to be functioning suddenly in a half-wandering way. "Some role, Silver Mag! I was the star to-night!
"I've come home, mother!" he said, going to her and kissing her. "I'm thankful glad, son!" she replied. Uncle William took him into the shop, and they sat together on stools in the "Counting House." "I'm troubled, John," he said, "about the shop. Pippin's have offered to buy the business!..." "Buy the business. But we don't want to sell it!" "I know that. They're threatening me.
Pippin gave vent to no outburst of relief, maintaining a courteous silence, making only one allusion to his late guest, in answer to a remark of Scorrier: "Ah! don't tempt me! mustn't speak behind his back." A month passed, and Scorrier still remained Pippin's guest. As each mail-day approached he experienced a queer suppressed excitement.
The answer to that question would supply the motive for the Pippin's crime, and for half an hour, sitting there in the darkness, Jimmie Dale pondered the question, but the answer would not come. There were theories without number that he could formulate; but theories at best were indefinite. What had Melinoff meant by saying he had played square?
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