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"Gosh, yes!" replied Moriarty nervously. "I wonder what brings him from that direction? Come, Collins will you give me five to one he has letters for you? I'll take it at that." "Indeed you won't, sonny." "Well, let's have some wager before he gets any nearer," persisted Moriarty, with an unpleasant laugh. The suspense was beginning to tell upon a mind not originally cast in the Stoic mould.
He took Chester into a dark, grimy little inner office where a fat, stubby man was sitting before a desk with his feet upon it. "Hey? What!" he said when the clerk explained. "Looking for the place? Why, sonny, you're not half big enough." "Oh, I'm a great deal bigger than I look," cried Chester breathlessly. "That is, sir I mean I'm ever so much stronger than I look.
"Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't like to speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again." "A gentleman ah! What did she say to him, my man?" "Told him she supposed he had not married the other woman because he liked his old sweetheart best; and things like that." "What did the gentleman say to her, my sonny?"
Back on the Row, Roger had lounged around the cafés, feeling the loneliness that haunts men wanted by the law. And only because he was so lonely he had agreed to talk to the little man who sat and stared at him from across the table. "You a rocket pusher, astrogator, or skipper?" asked the little man. "Who wants to know?" asked Roger cautiously. "Look, sonny boy," was the quick retort. "I'm Mr.
"No, no," said Jane, at last. "It's silly of me. Forgive me. We mustn't talk of such things. Neither of us is fit to and to-night it's not becoming. I have lost my father and you are only my brother, Paul dear." Barney Bill broke in suddenly; and at the sound of his voice they moved apart. "Think over it, sonny. Don't go and do anything rash."
I can hear yer speaking now just in the same tone the night what yer run away with me. Yer hadn't a seat to yer breeches then, and now you've a seat in Parliament." He chuckled again at his joke. "But" he gripped the young man's knee in his bony clasp "you're just the same Paul, sonny, God bless yer and you'll come out straight all right. Here we are." The car drew up before Silas Finn's house.
But when you come to look at this thing by and large, and as a fa'r-minded man, sonny, you'll agree with us that the sooner you make terms with her the better. Considerin' your interest, Jacksey, let alone the claims of humanity, we've concluded to withdraw from here until this thing is settled.
Well, sir, when I got home that night, I found wife a heap cheerfuler. The doctor had give Sonny a big apple to eat an' pernounced him free from all symptoms o' lockjaw. But when I come the little feller had crawled 'way back under the bed an' lay there, eatin' his apple, an' they couldn't git him out.
That evening, the evening's engagement cancelled, found the two, in a big chair, in each other's arms. "Sonny sails to-morrow noon," she announced casually and irrelevant to anything in the conversation. "He's going out to the Malay Coast to inspect what's been done with that lumber and rubber company of his." "First I've heard of his leaving us," Lee managed to say, despite his surprise.
The lynx had launched itself forward in one last convulsive struggle to free itself from those strangling teeth at its throat. For a second or two Sonny felt himself overwhelmed, engulfed, in a vortex of rending claws. In a tight ball of hate and ferocity and horror the two rolled over and over in the underbrush. Sonny, doubled up hard to protect his belly, heard a shrill cry of fear from the Kid.
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