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When he feels needful of a jamboree he goes down to the bank an' fills his pockets an' a couple of valises with change, an' gum-shoes down to John D. Swab's, an' they hunt up Charley Carnage an' a couple of senators an' a rack of chips an' they finds 'em a back room, pulls off their collars an' coats an' goes to it.
"Ay," said Joe, "if he hadn't swabbed up too much liquor this morning, he wouldn't steer like that. Why, he will foul her!" As he spoke the Swab's bowsprit passed just inside one of the ropes of the other vessel, and was snapped off as if it had been a pipe-stem. "Sarves him right," growled Gunter. "It's a pity all the same," said Trevor.
There's something fishy going on, and this swab's at the bottom of it! We want him, too, on a charge of murder, or instigating murder, and the guardroom's the best place for him. To the guardroom with him. He'll do for a hostage anyhow. And where he is, I've a notion that the control of this treachery won't be far away! Grab him below the arms and by the legs.
Next moment I stood aghast between the devil and the deep sea. I still heard a something down below, but a worse sound came to drown it. An unseen hand was very quietly trying the door which Rattray had locked behind him. "Diablo!" came to my horrified ears, in a soft, vindictive voice. "I told ye so," muttered another; "the young swab's got the key."
"They just got in fine big auto they're over at 'Pop' Swab's soda emporium, filling up on ginger ale, and poking fun at some of the new fellows." "Just like 'em," murmured Tom. "We'll do something more than poke fun at 'em when we see 'em." "That's what," added Jack. "Maybe they aren't going to stay they may have just come here for a bluff, and are going away again," suggested Bert.
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