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"Sleight-of-hand work?" I suggested, in a whisper. "Sort of attempt," replied the wizard, in the same key. "You gev me a start. All the lights was out two hours ago, an' I med sure everybody was safe." "So they are. I've only been down for a swim. Good-night, Possum." "I say, Collins don't split!" "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?"
I gev orders to have the meats dished as soon as the first horse was seen over the rise o' the hill, and it'll all be smokin' on the table." Though the meal was such as no one had ever before seen in the Barton farm-house, it was enjoyed by very few of the company. The sense of something to come after it made them silent and uncomfortable. Mr.
"I went arter 'im, dodged rahnd the fust corner, an', bli-me, 'e gev me a punch that would 'ave 'arted Corbett." "What with his fist?" inquired Brett. "Nah, guv'nor 'is 'eel, blawst 'im. I could 'ave dodged a square blow. I can use my dukes a bit myself." "What was the value of the punch?" The youth tried to smile, though the effort tortured him. "It was worth 'arf a thick 'un at least, guv'nor."
He proceeded to astonish that stout mariner with the evening's budget, but Stump had been thinking things out in his own fashion, and he set forth a theory which apparently accounted for von Kerber's discomfiture. "You see, it's this way," said he. "These bloomin' I-talians have got the griffin about that treasure. And who gev' it to 'em? Why, that chap who arranged the hold-up at Marseilles.
Gev him a black eye, I should think. I only threw that one. I hadn't the heart to try again. All the little boys cheered when it hit him." After an interval "I am sorry the boot hit him." Another pause. The potatoes were being scrubbed violently. "He always was a bit above me, you know, ma'am. And he was led away." The potatoes were more than finished.
"Cliff's Holiday" has been the name of it ever sin' I were a boy; that's to say, some said as it was the holiday Old Harry gev him from roasting, like. That's what my father told me, and he was a reasonable man, though there's folks nowadays know what happened afore they were born better nor they know their own business."
More be token, it was on a Friday; but, for all that, there was plenty of mate; for the Pope gev himself an absolution from the fast on account of the great company that was in it, at laste so I'm tould.
"Wasn't I tellin' your Ladyship the pots and pans and the few little bright cans among them, and not a penny betune the two poor souls, nor they knowing where to turn to!" "Where are they now?" Lady O'Gara asked quietly. "They're in my house, your Ladyship. I brought them back there last night an' I gev it up to them. I slep' in the loft over the stables myself."
'oo, did you say, miss?" demanded Watts, whose lower jaw actually dropped from sheer amazement. "Mr. Verity, the owner of the Andromeda. You are one of the crew, I suppose?" "I'm the chief officer. Watts is my name, miss. But d'you mean to tell me that ole David Verity 'as come 'ere to Brazil to this rotten . . . Sorry, miss, but you gev' me a turn, you did. An' Dickey Bulmer is 'e 'ere too?"
I cudna move or say a word, though I felt my hair rising on my heed; but at lang-last I gev a yelloch, and say I, 'La! what is that? And he himsel' looked round on me, like the devil he is; and, wi' a skirl o' a laugh, he strikes the lantern out o' my hand. When I cum to myself we were outside the coach-house door.
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