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"But," pursued the girl, "Lapierre was with us that night!" Lena shrugged. "Yah, Lapierre very smart. He send LeFroy 'long wit' das vhiskey. Den v'en he know MacNair's Injuns git awful drunk, he tak' ju 'long for see it." "LeFroy!" cried Chloe. "Why, LeFroy was off to the eastward trying to run down some whiskey-runners." Big Lena laughed derisively. "How ju fin' out?" she asked. Chloe hesitated.

Shrig, "you're a Nob, I know, a Corinthian by your looks, a Buck, sir, a Dash, a 'eavy Toddler, but also, I takes the liberty o' telling you as you're only a man, arter all, like the rest on us, and it's that man as I'm a-talking to. Now v'en a man 'as stood up for me, shed 'is good blood for me, I makes that man my pal, and my pal I allus trusts."

I got him bones an' other bits o' grub, an' kep' 'im in the water-butt for three veeks. Then he began to make a noise v'en I left him; so, bein' sure the bobbies would rout 'im out at last, I took 'im an' sold 'im to the first pleasant lady that seemed to fancy 'im."

Shrig, others glancing back over their shoulders towards the dimness behind, whence came a shrill whistle and the noise of pursuit. "Ah, you may look!" cried Mr. Shrig, "but I've got ye, my lambs all on ye! You, Bunty Fagan, and Dancing Jimmy, I know you, and you know me, so stand all on ye. The first man as moves I'll shoot stone dead, and v'en I says a thing I "

"Then perhaps I had better be going?" said he. "Going, sir? and for v'y?" "That you may be more private, and talk more freely." "Sir," said Mr. Shrig. "I knows v'en to speak and v'en not. My eyes tells me who I can trust and who not. And, sir, I've took to you, and so's the Corp, ain't you, Dick?" "Yes, sir," said the giant diffidently. "Sir," pursued Mr.