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Tomlin went downstairs scratching his head. "Least said soonest mended," he communed, "but we may all be murdered in our beds if them's the sort of 'tecs we 'ave to look arter us." However, he cheered up towards night. Ingerman, a lawyer, and some pressmen, arriving for the inquest, filled every available room, and the kitchen was redolent of good fare.
"Then yes you can show me a looking-glass if you have one!" Crofts had a small one on his chimney-piece. "By the Lord Harry," said he, handing it, "but you tip-top 'tecs are a leery lot!" Langholm went north next morning by the ten o'clock express from King's Cross.
It may appear extraordinary, to find the Caracas Islands so distant from the city of that name, opposite the coast of the Cumanagotos; but the denomination of Caracas denoted at the beginning of the Conquest, not a particular spot, but a tribe of Indians, neighbours of the Tecs, the Taramaynas, and the Chagaragates.
He was sitting gloomily at the table with his hands in his pockets. "Turned off?" He nodded. "What's up?" "'Tecs," said Frank. Gertie's mouth opened a little. "One of them saw me going in and wired for instructions. He had seen the case in the police-news and thought I answered to the description. Then he came back at eleven and told the governor." "And " "Yes." There was a pause. "And George?"
And I believed he had a pistol in his pocket, and that he would use it if I so much as lifted my hand. "Oh," says he presently, and in a mocking tone which ran down my back like cold water from a spout. "Oh, you're a brave boy, Britten, and when you spread yourself about the tecs, I like you. Now, see here, did I try to murder that girl or did I not? Fair question and fair answer.
Moreover, you can tell our cards by notches and thumb smears on the backs. I'll show you how." He told the cards correctly there was no gainsaying it. The men were overwhelmed. "What are you, anyway?" Lemon asked; "tecs?" "Never mind what we are!" Curtis said savagely. "We know what you are and that's where the rub comes in. Now what are you going to pay us to hold our tongues?" "Pay you!"
Presently the iron flap behind the bars was cautiously opened and I saw a face peering through at me. Before I could speak the iron flap was shut to with a clank. "That's because Nanine sees you're a stranger," whispered my guide. "They're a real bad lot here, and they're precious afraid of any 'tecs getting in. Just let me pass, sir."
Thenceforth the day had passed in a whirl of excitement, active in respect to police inquiries and passive in its resistance to newspaper interviewers. He saw no valid reason why his employer's plans should be disturbed, so made no effort to communicate with him at Brooklands. "Them 'tecs were very pressin', sir," said Bates, rather indignantly, "very pressin', especially the little one.
Sounds like a golf-stick an' Ah've no doubt he's got a head like one: main thick and with a twist in un. I dunna like 'tecs, Sir Henry, and I dunna like this one especial. Who's to tell as he aren't in with they devils as is after Black Riot? Naw! I dunna like him at all."
Sounds like a golf-stick an' Ah've no doubt he's got a head like one: main thick and with a twist in un. I dunna like 'tecs, Sir Henry, and I dunna like this one especial. Who's to tell as he aren't in with they devils as is after Black Riot? Naw! I dunna like him at all."
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