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W'at is this?" Alfarez bustled into the conversation. "Embezzle? He is then a t'ief?" "Exactly. If you're the inspector I'll ask you to make this arrest for me. I believe we're on foreign ground." "That's right, Alfarez," came the voice of John Weeks, anxious to have a word in the affair. "I'll vouch for Mr. Williams.
But thees mornin' I'm seein' thot hombre in town, and so I haf go gettin' you to coom help me. But you haf steal seex dolars. I'm forgettin' thot not! And if you say soomt'ing to soombody soomtime, I'm havin' you arrested, Franke, for a t'ief and a robber same as I ought to arrest thot Pedro Garcia oop in the canyon." Franke maintained discreet silence. But not for long.
"Not yet, daddy," cried Monty, "I's a pleeceman of the A Division, Number 2, 'ats me, an' I'm goin' to catch a t'ief. I 'mell 'im." "You smell him, do you? Where is he, d'you think?" "Oh! I know," replied the small policeman here he came close up to his father, and, getting on tiptoe, said in a very audible whisper, "he's under de table, but don' tell 'im I know. His name's Joe!"
"Nobody goin' believe Courteau. And McCaskey is dam' t'ief." "If only I could help him. You'll go to him, 'Poleon, won't you? Promise." Silently the Canadian assented. They had reached the door of the hotel before he spoke again; then he said slowly, quietly: "You been playin' 'hearts' wit' HIM, ma soeur? You you love him? Yes?" "Oh yes!" The confession came in a miserable gasp. "Bien!
He carried out his bluff, unbuckling and buckling one of the straps, then mildly straightened up and faced the man. "Pedro," he began, tensely, "you haf know José, Juan, Manuel, Francisco, Carlotta all haf know thot eet is only one t'ief in all thees place! And thot man thot t'ief is Pedro Garcia!" Pedro grunted. "Where you haf steal thot horse?" he repeated, without show of anger.
"Tobac?" he inquired. Archer passed him a dark and heavy plug of tobacco. "Knife?" queried Sacobie. "Try your own knife on it," answered Archer, grinning. With a sigh Sacobie produced his sheath-knife. "You t'ink Sacobie heap big t'ief," he said, accusingly. "Knives are easily lost in people's pockets," replied Archer. The two men talked for hours.
The money belonging to the men who had gone after the two strangers was placed in the hands of sons, wives or fathers. "Hide it away, men," said the skipper, "for if them two pirates gets clear away, they'll sure be back some day wid a crew o' blackguards like themselves, to try to t'ief all our property away from us."
I don't know anything about the law, but I do know something of right and wrong; and I 'm willing to take my chance with any judge for whatever wrong I have done with all the judges in the United States, for that matter. And that 's more than you can say, Mr. Pete." "You say dat, eh? Vaire good. But you are one big t'ief " "I 'm not don't you dare call me that again!"
"It's more they are thinking of themselves, then, than other people thinks of them," cried Betty. "A t'ief's a t'ief, anyway; whether he stales for King George or for Congress." "I know'd that evil would soon happen," said Katy.
I can see ye wrinkle yer nose, and I don't blame yez. I'll move to the down-wind side of yez. Ye see, it was like this: The t'ief iv the wurruld was in me chicken house " "I said I was Farwell," that gentleman interrupted. "Farrel, is ut?" said the station agent. "I knowed a Farrel thirty years gone. W'u'd he be yer father, now? His people come from Munster, if I mind right.
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