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Updated: June 4, 2025
Outside it was broad bright day, a new beautiful day, and the breath of the morning blew sweetly over the world. The Church was full of a clear and early light, the young pale gold of the new Spring sun. None of the congregation had as yet arrived. Before I went into the sacristy to put on my vestments, I gave back into St. Stanislaus' hands the IOU of Slippy McGee. There was a glamour upon it.
As for me, when I was at the beginning of the submerged bridge, and busily laying about in my mind for a definite opinion as to whether it was better to walk on a slippy tree trunk bridge you could see, or on one you could not, I was hurled off by that inexorable fate that demands of me a personal acquaintance with fluvial and paludial ground deposits; whereupon I took a header, and am thereby able to inform the world, that there is between fifteen and twenty feet of water each side of that log.
The stones was all wet and slimy, and onnateral slippy, and I expected every minute, I should heels up and go for it: atween them two critters the Ghost and the juicy ledge, I felt awful skeered I tell you. So I begins to say my catechism; what's your name, sais I? Rufus Dodge. Who gave you that name? Godfather and godmother granny Eells. What did they promise for you?
Whoever heard of a Princess leaving a Prince for a Dragon!" "But she wasn't the ordinary sort of Princess," I argued. "Then she's got to be," criticised Hocker. "Don't you give yourself so many airs. You make her marry the Prince, and be slippy about it. I've got to catch the four-fifteen from Chalk Farm station." "But she didn't," I persisted obstinately.
"Look as slippy as you can, but be careful. An injured man is always more or less of a nuisance, you know." He grinned cheerfully at that, and then, without another word, turned on his heel and made off towards the funnel. I walked back to Moira. "What are you going to do now?" she asked me suspiciously. "What's Mr. Cumshaw after?" "He's going down through that funnel-shaped thing," I answered.
And then that mysterious, hidden self-under-self that lives in us far, far beneath thought and instinct and conscience and heredity and even consciousness itself, rose to the surface with a message: Slippy McGee had been the greatest cracksman in all America.... "Honest to God, skypilot, I can open any box made, easy as easy!" ... And even as his tools were hidden in St.
In doing which she lost her temper, or mislaid it for an instant; for, the water being uncomfortably cold, and in that slippy, slushy, sleety sort of state wherein it seems to penetrate through every kind of substance, patten rings included had laid hold of Mrs. Peerybingle's toes, and even splashed her legs. Besides, the kettle was aggravating and obstinate.
That cold, clear, incisive power of brain which on a time had made Slippy McGee the greatest cracksman in America, was, trained and disciplined in a better cause, to make John Flint in later years an international authority upon lepidoptera, an observer to whom other observers deferred, a naturalist whose dictum settled disputed points. And I knew it, I foresaw it! Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
'His lodger lost 'is purse the other day. "I'd got two and ninepence, as it 'appened, and then there was more trouble because the skipper wouldn't give 'im the money till he 'ad gone, and 'e wouldn't go till he 'ad got it. The skipper gave way at last, and as soon as he 'ad got it 'Arry ses, 'Now 'op off and borrer the rest, and look slippy about it.
'I be offerin' what may turn out to be the chance o' your life, if you're a smart chap an' want promotion. 'What is it? said I. 'Well, I mention no names, said he, 'but you live in the same house with Nicholas Nanjivell. 'We're turnin' out this week, said I. 'All the more reason why you should look slippy an' get to work at once, says he.
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