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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Ha! you may choke me now, if you can," muttered Sam, as he grasped the rope with both hands, "only, the longer you hold on to me the longer you will be of getting out of the water." The terrified lad still retained sufficient sense to appreciate the force of the remark. Looking up as well as he could through his dishevelled hair, he held out one hand to Slagg, who grasped it firmly.
Jim Slagg," he cried, extending a hand which bore strong resemblance to a claw, it was so thin. "Come to me, Jim, How I've wished an' longed, an' " He stopped and burst into tears, for he was very weak, poor fellow, and even strong men weep when their strength is brought low.
"The Jews will advance you enough on your jewellery to pay your passage." "Sarves you right for bein' so greedy," said Slagg. The greed which Slagg referred to had been displayed by Stumps at the time the parcels of coin and precious stones were made up in the cavern for sudden emergency, as before mentioned.
I could take a dozen more of you," returned the hospitable electrician; "and my wife rejoices absolutely rejoices when I bring home unexpected company." "What a pattern she must be," said Slagg; "but excuse me, sir, since you are so good as to invite us all, may I make so bold as to ax if you've got a servants'-'all?"
Only those who have been for a few moments in deadly peril can understand the feeling of intense relief that came to Sam Shipton's heart when he felt his toes touch ground on that eventful night. The feeling was expressed in his tone of voice as he asked Slagg whether he had seen any of the others. "No, sir, I ain't seen 'em for want o' light, but I've heerd 'em.
Stumps, having sprained his ankle slightly, remained at the cave, for the purpose, as he said, of helping Meerta with the garden, but Jim Slagg gave him credit for laziness.
"I have rather diluted the dose than otherwise," returned Redpath. "Let me introduce Mr Slagg. He wishes to see Indian life in the `servants'-hall. Let him see it, and treat him well." "Yours to command," said Flinn, with a nod as he led the horses away. "This way, Mr Slug." "Slagg, if you please, Mr Flinn," said Jim.
Robin!" shouted Sam and Slagg together, at the top of their voices. "Coming! coming!" reached them faintly from below, but Robin did not come. The hasty summons induced him to leap over a chest in returning. He struck his head violently against a beam, and fell back stunned. With another wild shout his friends rushed down the companion-hatch to hasten his movements by force.
"Well, well, Jim," said Mrs Slagg, with a loving look at her son's flushed face, "you've told me a heap o' wonderful tales about telegrumphs, an' tigers, an' electricity an' what not. If you was as great a liar as you was used to be, Jim, I tell 'ee plain, lad, I wouldn't believe one word on it.
"A what-cock?" asked Slagg, who afterwards described the noise to be like the flapping of a mainsail. "A pay-cock. Splendid aitin'. Fire, avic!" "What! fire at that?" cried Slagg, as a creature of enormous size and gorgeous plumage rose above the bushes. "Ye must be jokin'. I couldn't fire at that."
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