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His sternness was all gone, or very nearly: he babbled freely and drunkenly walking up and down the chamber, like a restless beast. He told me point after point that he need not even their very code how "swan-quills" and "goose-quills" and "crow-quills" stood for blunderbusses and muskets and pistols; and "sand and ink" for powder and balls.
"Well; there is Keeling," I said. "And what is Keeling?" he asked with some contempt. "A maltster, and a carpenter: a fine bag of assassins! And how can you prove anything but treasonable talk? Where were the 'swan-quills' and the 'sand and the ink'? Did you set eyes on any of them?" I was silent. "No, no, Mr. Mallock; we must wait awhile. I have even talked to Jeffreys, and he says the same.
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