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'Never mind! we'll try. You couldn't do with the Gladstone only, I suppose? You see, the dinghy h'm, and there's the hatchway, too' he was lost in thought. 'Anyhow, we'll try. I'm afraid there are no cabs; but it's quite near, and the porter'll help. Sickening forebodings crept over me, while Davies shouldered my Gladstone and clutched at the parcels. 'Aren't your men here? I asked, faintly.
"That's what I went to the trouble o' rootin' out that saddle an' bridle for," sez I, "but I don't care to have it advertised that I'm ridin' fence at my time o' life, an' I don't promise to continue at it more'n a few months." "I see," sez he, "an' it'll be all right. Kid Porter'll be down with the buckboard day after to-morrow, an' you can go out with him."
"What is it?" he asked. "C. & S.C. again?" Jim nodded, and drawing out his cigar case, he took one and tossed the case down to Harvey, then said: "Yes, and I think we've got 'em down. We've issued some more stock." He leaned on the table and spoke in a confidential tone. "And I reckon Porter'll be doing a hornpipe when he finds it out." "Who took it?" asked Harvey.
"Miss Porter'll tell ye about this wan," said Mike, diplomatically. "He's shaped like a good horse, an' his sire, old Lazzarone, landed many a purse, an' the 'Suburban, too won it on three legs, fer he was clean gone in his pins, I'll take me oath to that. He was a good horse whin he liked. Perhaps Lauzanne'll do the same some day, fer all I know."
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