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"Wheresh my lil' present for Duchess?" he wailed. "Can't go 'ome without lil' present." Jonah was in despair. At last he rolled his handkerchief into a ball and thrust it into Dad's hand. Then Dad, relieved and happy, cast Jonah off, and stood for a moment like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Don't want that all burned spoil shings have 'em burned. "'Lo, Darcy!" went on a young man, who walked unsteadily into the jewelry store. "Wheresh tha' paper cutter I left for you t' 'grave Pearl's name on? Got take it home now. Got take her home some someshing square myself. Been out al'night you know how 'tish! Take wifely home li'l preshent you know how 'tish.
Gotta please wifely when you hic been out al' night. Wheresh my gold-mounted paper cutter, Darcy?" "Harry King, and stewed to the gills again!" murmured Pete Daley. "Wow! he has some bun on!" "Wheresh my paper cutter, Darcy?" went on King, smiling in a fashion meant to be merry, but which was fixed and glassy as to his eyes. "Wheresh my li'l preshent for wifely?
Man comes in get li'l preshent for his wife wife sits up all night waitin' she's 'titled to li'l preshent. Wheresh my gold knife, Darcy? I give it to you have 'grave Pearl's name wheresh my knife?" "You can have it pretty soon," promised Thong. "Look here, Harry, my boy. You're pretty drunk, for a fact, but do you happen to know where you were and what you did last night and early this morning?
Got her name all 'graved on it nice an' pretty? Thash what'll square wifely when I been out hic al'night. Wheresh my paper cutter, Darcy, ol' man?" Silently the jewelry worker pointed to the stained dagger it was really that, though designed for a paper cutter. The detective held it out, and the red spots on it seemed to show brighter in the gleam of the electric lights.
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