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The rest'll be all plain sailing, and I'll be alongside you on the right side of the glass in two shakes of a lamb's tail. Savez?" "Excellent!" returned Frobisher in a whisper; "and, as you say, perfectly simple. Only, you must go first. You surely do not suppose that I am going to make good my escape, leaving you here to run the risk of being taken in my stead "
The rest'll dry out so nobody will know the diff'." Bobby brightened. "Won't I catch cold?" he asked doubtfully. "This kind of weather? Naw!" said Jimmy Powers with scorn. "You rustle in to the cook shanty and get Corrigan to let you sit by the stove." Bobby said farewell to his guide, and presented himself to the cook. "I fell in," he announced, "can I sit by the stove?"
"What's the matter with Mort?" inquired the second traveler. "He's resting up. Yesterday, during the storm he " Johnny was upon the point of saying "played out," but changed it to "had an accident. We thought it was serious, but a few days' rest'll bring him around all right. He saved me at Katmai, coming in. I petered out and threw up my tail, but he got me through.
Not one o' the rest'll come near if you give it for me nor if you give it for anybody. Mis' Proudfit, now, she tried to give a noon lunch on St. Patrick's day for Mis' Postmaster Sykes, an' the folks she ask' to it got together an' sent in their regrets.
"It was a neat bit o' work, and I shall tell him so when I catch him. Look here!" He stood up and exhibited the damage. "I've rubbed off what I could," he said, resuming his seat, "and I s'pose the rest'll brush off when it's dry. To-morrow morning I shall go down to the harbor and try and spot my lord."
"It was a neat bit o' work, and I shall tell him so when I catch him. Look here!" He stood up and exhibited the damage. "I've rubbed off what I could," he said, resuming his seat, "and I s'pose the rest'll brush off when it's dry. To-morrow morning I shall go down to the harbor and try and spot my lord."
"Do you think much of that donkey?" he asked quickly. "I should say so!" "Well, the first thing he'll be stolen. He'll be gone tomorrow. Then the rest'll come after, and it's Fatty as tells yer so." "Really?" "Should say so! You've never been to Paris before?" "No, never." "That's easy to see. Some fools told you where to put your cart up, but you can't put it there.
"We figger that if a dozen or two of 'em's cleaned out, quick and mysterious, the rest'll tuck tail and sneak. It's happened that way in other places more than once, as you and I know. Well, you're the man that don't have to take lessons." "Money talks," repeated Mark, still looking into the chimney.
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