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There's a new post I'll have set up. It's here waiting. I can't do more." "But you'll do a darned sight less. Right's right, an' stealin's stealin'. You wasn't wise, as you say far from it. You'm in the wrong now, an' you knaw it, whatever you was before. A nice bobbery! Why doan't he take my plough or wan of the bullocks? Damned thieves, the lot of'e!"
"Ain't I been tellin' you?" he snapped, testily. "Ain't I this minute told you? This Ed Farmer had cleared out and run off and he'd took with him every cent of Hall and Company's money that he could rake and scrape. He'd been stealin' and speculatin' for years, it turned out. 'Twas him, the dum thief, him and his stealin's that made the firm fail. Wan't that enough to happen, I'd like to know?
And, bein' secretary and treasurer of the Wellmouth Development Company, he had sent the fifty thousand its stockholders paid in after the rest of his stealin's. All there was left of that new Development Company was the land over here by Skoonic Creek.
"Oh, shut your dirty face!" replied the son, while one of his cronies warned both against being overheard. But when this one added something further the old man snarled: "What's that about the horse? The horse might git away and be evidence ag'inst us? What? Oh, now give the true reason; you want the horse, that's all! You two lickskillets air in this thing pyo'ly for the stealin's.
I reckon stealin's awful," and she lay there in a very humble frame of mind, till she went to sleep. "I cannot imagine what has become of Bubbles," said Mrs. Dallas to her husband when he came in. "I have looked the house over, and called her in every room. She cannot have followed the children. I never knew her to stay away before." "Hasn't Sylvy seen her?" "Not since early in the afternoon.
"My mother's got a chany jug what used to belong to her grandfather, and he lived in Lunnon." Observing a twinkle in the corner of Barney's eye he continued in an injured tone: "You've bin lyin'. Lies is wicked, and stealin's wicked too." There was a sound of conscious superiority in his tone, which was naturally irritating to his companion, who laughed hoarsely.
It wasn't none of your common stealin's an' findin's; an' it aint everywhere you'll see a child that kin git itself lost back of Prince Albert's monnyment, an' git itself found at the operer in Paris, an' attend to both ends of the case itself. An', after all, them two high notes of hern was more good than Perkins's Indelible Dab."
Stealin's the least of his crimes, I'll venture." He proceeded still more gently. "The owners of the land which you've been using as your own in this town, have written to inquire about it, and have put the business in my hands." Ganew was silent for a moment. Then trying to speak in an indignant tone, he said, "Using as my own! I don't know what you mean, Mr. Parson.
I began explaining to Jepson, here, about taking the papers which have to do with the case, but he can't " "You can't make me believe stealin's right, no matter how you go at it!" interrupted the old salt, doggedly shaking his head. "Perhaps I can," put in Ruth with a smile, as the manager mentioned their names to the newest and, seemingly, the most refractory member of the company.
What " in hushed curiosity and awe "what was he in prison for?" "Stealin'." Her pride was unmistakable. William looked at her in disapproval. "Stealin's wicked," he said virtuously. "Huh!" she jeered, "you can't steal! You're too soft! Softie! You can't steal without bein' copped fust go, you can't." "I could!" he said indignantly.
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