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Then the man came toward her, stopped, peered and for a second drew back. And then then she heard his voice, in a kind of startled joy: "Oh is it is it you?" "Yes," she answered. "I must see you! I must talk with you, again, and know the truth!" The officer edged nearer. "Youse can talk all y' want to," he dictated, hoarsely, "but don't you pass nothin' in. No dope, nor nothin', see?
"Youse isn't going on to look for 'em, is you? There be no chance of doing nothing a night like this," added the old man. But Sally was in another world. He could see the two men adrift and trying to keep life in themselves on the White Hills just as plainly as the cry made him see his beloved dogs calling to him from the exposed trail outside.
An' now youse say dat you'll be sorry fer der feller wot hired me ter do yer! I'd like ter know jes' how ye're put up." "I can't help being sorry to know that a fellow I have considered white and a friend is crooked and an enemy, if it is to prove that way." "Say, young feller, I likes you, durn me ef I don't!
"Say," went on Mr. Jarvis, waxing wrathful at the recollection, "what do youse t'ink dem fresh stiffs done de odder night? Started some rough woik in me own dance-joint." "Shamrock Hall?" said Smith. "I heard about it." "Dat's right, Shamrock Hall. Say, I got it in for dem gazebos, sure I have. Surest t'ing you know." Smith beamed approval. "That," he said, "is the right spirit.
"Youse don't need to be sore all night! I told youse I wasn't tryin' to hand youse one, didn't I?" "Never mind Larry, Slimmy," put in the Tocsin petulantly. "He's down on his luck, dat's all. He ain't had de price of a pinch of coke fer two days." "Oho!" exclaimed the Magpie, grinning again. "So dat's wot's givin' youse de pip, eh, Larry?
But how did youse know dat guy Kenleigh had de goods?" "That's none of your business, is it?" replied Virat, a little defiantly. "You're getting yours now." Larry the Bat appeared to ponder the other's words, a curious smile on his lips. "Well, mabbe it ain't," he admitted. "Let it go anyway, an' split the swag. Count 'em out!"
Can such things be?" she whispered to herself. "So this this is a police station? And real jails and penitentiaries are worse? Oh, horrible! I never dreamed of anything like this, or any men like these!" The officer, stopping at a cell-door and banging thereon with some keys, startled her. "Here, youse," he addressed the man within, "lady to see youse!"
"It don't do any harm to hear both sides of a proposition. I guess that cousin o' yours kind of hypnotized you. He's got more fool schemes for redeemin' this state. Far as I can see it don't need any redeemin'. It's loaded to the rails with prosperity and clippin' off its sixty miles an hour. I say, let well enough alone. Where youse keep your matches, Mr. Farnum? Thanks!
"Done wid it!" echoed the Magpie, with a short laugh. "Wot do youse t'ink! He's been luggin' it home to his swell joint up dere on de avenoo, an' crammin' his safe full of it." Larry the Bat sucked in his breath. "Gee, dat's soft!" he murmured, and then suddenly, as though with painful inspiration: "Say, Slimmy say, are youse sure youse ain't been handed a steer?" The Magpie grinned wickedly.
"Are youse going to give me that licking now?" he asked, eyes big with surprise. "How often have I told you not to ask questions? Shuck the coat." He twisted out of it like an eel. I took it from him, turned it inside out, and opened my pocket knife. Carefully I ripped the lining at the seams. From a kind of pocket I drew an envelope.
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