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I bin rubberin. Aw, quit yer foolin', Sam, where is he? 'I couldn't tell you just where he is at the present moment, I said precisely. 'Ahr chee! Let me swot him one! begged the man with the pistol; a most unlovable person. I could never have made a friend of him. 'Cheese it, you! said Mr MacGinnis. The other cheesed it once more, regretfully.

"Well, young man, you have my permission to tackle the job. Her name is Inez Webster. I don't know where she lives, or with whom she's staying; but she's somewhere in New York. Now, how will you begin?" "By rubberin' at Mr. Robert's date pad," says I. "Good!" says Old Hickory. "No one else thought of that," and he leads the way in and unlocks Mr. Robert's rolltop.

And sure enough, by rubberin' in through the door, I can see a clerk haulin' out a tray of rings. Think of that! Vincent. He must have been in there before and looked over the stock, for inside of ten minutes out he comes again. And by makin' a quick maneuver I manages to bump into him as he's leavin' the front door with the little white box in his fist.

The punchers gathered around in delight. For the time they had forgotten tobacco. Curly looked around him slowly in every direction. He snarled like a Scotch terrier through his ragged beard. "Where is this?" he rasped through his parched throat. "It's a damn farm in an old field. What'd you bring me here for say? Did I say I wanted to come here? What are you Reubs rubberin' at hey?

"Not a damn bit," replied Jake Brewer, "don't need it now. Keep the bait cars a floatin' to blind the eyes of some guy that might be a rubberin'. They don't know a minnie from a whale, those city coves don't." "Ain't that Orn's boat comin' under the shadders of the trees?" queried Longman, rising to his feet and wiping his long jack-knife on his blue-jeans breeches.

An' dere's a bunch of dem goin' to wait on de street in case youse beat it past down de stairs while de odder guys is rubberin' for youse. Gee, ain't dis de limit!" John stood thinking. His mind was working rapidly. Suddenly he smiled. "It's all right, Pugsy," he said. "It looks bad, but I see a way out. I'm going up that ladder there and through the trapdoor on to the roof.

It's a fairly good likeness, too, and I pockets it mysterious. And next day I spends most of my lunch hour prowlin' around on the Sixth Ave. hiring line rubberin' at the signs over the employment agencies. Must have been about the tenth hallway I'd scouted into before I ran across the right one.

I'll bet if the angel Gabriel should show up and send in his card she'd make him prove who he was by playin' the horn. It was a cinch she didn't mistake me for no angel, when Mr. Robert sends me up there to do an errand for Benny. I wa'n't callin' for no aunts, anyway, but just leavin' a note for Wilson that's Benny's man when this sharp-nosed old party comes rubberin' into the front hall.

He can talk softly and listen easily through the height of the cabaret racket. The scene hits Izzy as water hits a duck's back. "Well," he says, "it's a good night tonight. The slummers are out in full force rubberin' at each other. Well, this is a funny world, take it from me. Me? Huh, I come here every night or so to have a little drink and look 'em over for a while.

The punchers gathered around in delight. For the time they had forgotten tobacco. Curly looked around him slowly in every direction. He snarled like a Scotch terrier through his ragged beard. "Where is this?" he rasped through his parched throat. "It's a damn farm in an old field. What'd you bring me here for say? Did I say I wanted to come here? What are you Reubs rubberin' at hey?