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Schuyler permits me, I go 'round there to sleep, and sometimes I go in the daylight hours. But on that night I happened to be staying here." "Tibbetts is rather a privileged character," interposed Ruth. "She has been with me for many years, and as she likes a little place of her own, I adopted the plan of which she has told you." "But that night you were here?" said Stone, to the maid. "Yes, sir.
"Up by the slide rock," he continued, "and by the spook." "Who was he?" "What was it?" they cried, starting to their feet. "It was Jimmy Gaynes," replied California John. "The Babe?" someone broke the stunned silence at last. "Precisely." "Well, I'll be damned!" cried Tibbetts. "Did he get much off you?" asked a miner after another pause. "He never took a thing."
"What the dooce is all this about hey?" demanded Lieutenant Tibbetts fiercely, and Iberi, doubly uneasy at the sound of an unaccustomed language, stood on one leg in his embarrassment. "Lord, the thief Bosambo " he began, and told the story. "Lord," he concluded humbly, "I say all this though Bosambo is your relation since you have secretly married his sister's cousin."
"Then, Cooper, call the butler, or whoever is in general charge. And summon Mrs. Schuyler." "I'll call Jepson, he's the butler, sir. And I'll call Mrs. Schuyler's maid, Tibbetts, if she's in. And the maid, Hester, who waits on the Misses Schuyler. Shall I?" "Yes, get things started. Get Jepson as soon as you can." "This is an awful affair," said Mason, as Cooper went off.
And I should have owned up to the whole scheme at once except that it would bring out the knowledge of Tibbetts' act. "I wished not to go back to the other house at all and should not have done so for myself. But I had reasons connected with other people.
James Tibbetts looked long and hopefully at the browned face of his young partner; but at what he saw there his hopes vanished. "You're set on this, I see, Rog," he said sorrowfully. "Cheer up, Jim!" responded Payne. "I'll give you a deal that will help you get rich a lot quicker than if I stayed with you." Tibbetts shook his head and was silent a long time.
"I'm glad they didn't," said Tibbetts. "That agent would have killed 'em shore!" They called out the Gaynes brothers and broke the news. For once the jovial youngsters had no joke to make. "This is getting serious," said Jimmy, seriously. "We can't afford to lose that much." George whistled dolefully, and went into the corral for the mules. The party toiled up the mountain.
Lieutenant Tibbetts went on: "Hear," said he in fluent and vitriolic Bomongo for he was using that fisher dialect which he knew so much better than the more sonorous tongue of the Upper River "O hear, eater of fish, O lame dog, O nameless child of a monkey!" M'fosa's lips went up one-sidedly.
"They called me Conk at Sandhurst, sir," he suggested. "Bones!" said Hamilton, definitely. "Bones it is, skipper," said Mr. Tibbetts; "an' now all this beastly formality is over we'll have a bottle to celebrate things." And a bottle they had. It was a splendid evening they spent, dining on chicken and palm-oil chop, rice pudding and sweet potatoes.
"Oh shut up and sit down!" interrupted his chief, irritably. "You jaw and jaw till my head aches." Reluctantly Lieutenant Tibbetts walked back, depositing his catch with the greatest care on the ground. "What on earth have you got there?" asked Hamilton, curiously. "I don't know whether it's cod or turbot," said the cautious Bones, "but I'll have 'em cooked and find out." Hamilton grinned.
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