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"Do you mean it?" he whispered. "Sure thing? Hope to die? Cross your heart?" "Yes, my dear." "Praise the Lord." "I snitched him," Gertrude confided to Margaret some days later, her whole being radiant and transfigured with happiness. "You snitch David."
"The old man wouldn't raise a roar if I snitched on you for that thirty thousand. It makes me scared to think of it." And from the fact that Tim thus openly mentioned the matter, Young Dick concluded that there was no possibility of the policeman's son betraying him. Not until six weeks afterward, in Arizona, did Young Dick bring up the subject.
And here's getting down to tacks! I'll lead you to the Gray Seal to-night and help you nab him and stay with you to the finish, but there's to be nobody but you and me on the job. When it's done I fade away, and nobody's to know I snitched, and no questions asked as to how I found out about the Gray Seal. I ain't looking for any of the glory you can fix that up to suit yourself.
That's right; swing your arms. One two three! THERE you go!" Another silence. "ZING! Well, sir, I'll be e-tarnally snitched to flinders if you didn't do it THAT time, Bill Hammersley! I see I never really saw any jumping before in all my born days. It's eleven feet if it's an inch. What? You say you "
I'll only be a few minutes, and " She stopped abruptly as her wrists were suddenly imprisoned in a frantic grip. "You swore it!" Gypsy Nan was whispering feverishly. "You swore it! They say the White Moll never snitched. That's the one chance I've got, and I'm going to take it. I'm not delirious not yet. I wish to God it was nothing more than that! Look!"
He knew that he could hope for no fellow's confidence if he "snitched." "Wal, say, I've a notion to tell yeh!" Sam attacked his ice cream contemplatively. "How would a bluff game strike you?" he asked suddenly as the last delectable mouthful of cream disappeared and he pulled the fresh cup of coffee toward him that the waiter had just set down.
"Put on your storm coat," cautioned Tom, "and you, too, Jerry-Jo; we'll get the wind when we pass Dreamer's Rock and strike the Big Bay." The boys got out their coats and put them on, and then Sandy said: "See what I've got! Snitched it from under the mother's eye, too!" He held up the bottles. Tom laughed, but Jerry-Jo reached out for one.
"Quite a few have been snitched from Harvest Moon and various storage points by now. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them turn up here in the dome eventually. Not that it's a serious loss. What the thieves have been getting away with is small stuff plasmoid nuts and bolts, so to speak.
Goodness knows what all they did do to keep the wheels of industry running—perhaps they were salesmen. They had the general appearance of earning at least ten to twenty thousand dollars a year. It may possibly have risen as high as two thousand. And Peters—who was small though grown, and black, and who cleaned up with a fearful dust and snitched lead pencils if you left them around.
But I puts it up like this: here's you, and you'd spotted me, and you hadn't snitched; you'd been in 'stir' yourself, and knowed what it was: d'ye see?" I smiled in the darkness. It was the brotherhood of the underworld. "And you lined up square at the finish, too, as I knowed yous would," he went on.
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