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Updated: June 9, 2025
He assumed a mocking attitude of studied grace, and twitched the wrinkles out of his threadbare waistcoat. Then, suddenly dropping his voice to a low pitch of singular sweetness, he continued: "W'isky thought a lot o' that Chink; nobody but me knew how 'e doted on 'im. Couldn't bear 'im out of 'is sight, the derned protoplasm!
He had never before seen any one with just that look of brute cunning and terror. Daddy Neptune's steady eyes took in every detail. He stiffened in his tracks. "Whut you been doin'?" he demanded. Jake turned his head from side to side; he refused to meet the direct old eyes. He mumbled: "Is you got any w'isky, Da' Nepshun?
"Ver' good w'isky, eh?" He tossed off another four fingers of the liquor, and they sat down to their meal. The food was such as most tables in Manicaland offered. When they had finished Mills passed over his tobacco and sat back. He watched the other light up and blow a white cloud, and then spoke.
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