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Updated: June 21, 2025
"I know that I know it," said Mr. Latham impatiently. "That is the very question we are trying to solve." "Und if we don'd solve him, Laadham, ve'll haf to do vatever as he says," Mr. Schultze continued slowly. "Und ve may haf to do vatever as he says, anywhow." "Put one hundred million dollars into diamonds in one year just the five of us?" demanded the other. "It's preposterous."
The party, five of them in all, slouched over to the rail and stood looking down into the life-boat with an air of stolid indifference, as she rose and fell alongside. Then they turned and looked inboard at the long-boat, which stood upright in chocks, on top of the main hatch, with the jolly-boat stowed, keel-up, inside her. Finally one of them said: "Yah, ve'll do id; she's wort' de drouble.
Dere iss no vork, dere iss no help. If I steal not, how shall I do? I vas crying: I could not see. Then Jerry came. 'You shall nefer starve, he said. 'Stay honest, for God vill care for you, and ve'll all pray Him to keep you so. "And so, when meeting iss done, dey go vid me to see, and dere iss food and all dey can. Dey are God's angels to me and to mine.
A fine 'andsome gal she vere, and vith nothing of the flash mollisher about 'er, either, though born on the streets, as ye might say, same as me. Vell, she gets con-werted, and she's alvays napping 'er bib over me, as you'd say, piping 'er eye, d'ye see? vanting me to turn honest and be con-werted too. 'Turn honest, says she, 'and ve'll be married ter-morrow, says she."
For over an hour we picked our way, at each step whispering our repeated vows to shoot our guide if he did not conduct us right; and when I had begun to think that the fellow was playing us false, he suddenly stopped, and repeated his caution for silence. "Ve is close to um," he said. "A few steps more and ve'll be in sight of their camp.
"Tut off him's head," cried Dolly, clapping her fat little hands. "No, burn him for a witch," said Jenny. "Oh no! ve'll skeese him flat till he's bu'sted," suggested Job. But Jenny thought that would be too cruel, and Harry said it would be too tame. It must not be supposed that these and several other appalling tortures were meant to be really attempted. As Job afterwards said, it was only play.
"Of course I know it's just a trial, but I'll do my best, I promise you." "Vell," said Mr. Greesheimer, "you be here tomorrow at nine und ve'll see." He sighed. "Ve'll see, my friend." He turned back to his desk with an abrupt and businesslike little gesture of dismissal. And this businesslike air he retained on the morrow. As he explained her work to her, the tone of his voice was crisp and dry.
Then she heard Koenig letting himself into the house, and going downstairs she said: "Will you take this message to the telegraph office for me, please?" "Vhy, of course I vill, and den ve'll have supper togeder look!" and he laughed and opened a paper and drew out a string of sausages. "Mr. Koenig," she said, "you were right. I was not myself to-night. I want a rest, and I propose to take one."
"In about vun minute they'll run up ag'in the Corp," said he, "and a precious ugly customer they'll find him, not to mention my specials ve'll give 'em another two minutes." Saying which, Mr. Shrig reseated himself upon the dim step, watch in hand. "Sir," he continued, "I'm sorry about your 'at sich a werry good 'at, too!
I repeated my application, and after the girl had interpreted my request to her mother, I was asked into the lobby, and put through a kind of catechism. Was I a seamstress? No, but I wished to become one. Had I aiver vorked on vaistcoats? I hadn't, but I could do anything with my needle. "Very vell, ve'll see what she can do."
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