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Updated: May 12, 2025
As to piracy, now, and robbers and robbery, actual life fills out the gaps in the imagination of boyhood, doesn't it, Jim?" "Apt to," he assented, "but specifically? As to which, you know?" "Well, I've had my share of experience with them," I answered, "though not so much in the line of rob-or, as we planned, but more as rob-ee." Jim looked at me quizzically.
Presently he rose to go, and said that he would not be back. "Don't forget our date at the club this evening," said he, as he passed out. "Your style of diplomacy always seems to win with these down-East bankers. Your experience as rob-ee gives you the right handshake and the subscribed-and-sworn-to look that does their business for 'em every time. Good-by until then."
"But I don't see how that can be made to harmonize with your remark about rob-or and rob-ee. It's been your own fault, if you haven't been on the profitable side of the game, with the dear people on the other. And I judge from your looks that you eat three meals a day, right along, anyhow. As a former partner in crime, I won't squeal; and the next election is some ways off, anyhow.
With dry powder, mutual confidence, and sharp cutlasses, we are invincible; and as the poet saith, "'Far as the tum-te-tum the billows foam Survey our empire and behold our home, or words to that effect. And to think of your trying to deceive me, your former chieftain, who doesn't even vote in your county or state, and moreover always forgets election! Rob-ee indeed! rats!
"Your experience as rob-ee down there in Posey County makes you a sort of specialist in that sort of thing; and pretty soon all other things shall be added unto it." The Captain's onslaught in the first half-hour admonished me that a good deal was already added to it. On that very day, too, we had our first conference with Mr. Hinckley. We wanted to handle securities, said Mr.
"Don't allow anything to side-track you and prevent that visit." "Well, I should say not," he answered, following me out upon the platform of the station. "We'll have a regular piratical reunion a sort of buccaneers' camp-fire. I've a curiosity to see some of the fellows who acted the part of rob-or to your rob-ee. I want to hear their side of the story. Good-by, Al.
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