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"He's a good sport," went on the news-gatherer, "an' he don't ask no help from nobody. He stan's on his two feet like a man, m'lord. When he sees a row ahead he don't go to the law with it; no, m'lord; no indeed, m'lord. He says 'Hell with the law! Like a man would, like me an' you . . . an' he kills his own rats himself." "That's the Packard of him!
"What does he mean, Sir Charles?" "Regulations, m'lady m'lord!" was the answer. "No one allowed on the prisoners' deck without the captain's permission. There he is now." "Then be good enough to beckon to him!" said the lady. But this Mr. Gillett, agent of the police, discreetly declined to do; Captain Macpherson was a man not to be beckoned to by any one; much less by him.
"Ah, m'lord, not so!" protested Guy Little, a gleam in his eye like a faint flicker from a dead fire. "There was a time before I set these hoofs of mine into the wanderin' trail when " The rest might best be left entirely to the imagination and there he left it. But the old man was all untouched by his henchman's utterance and innuendoed boast for the simple reason that he had heard nothing of it.
It said: "Ash barrel back of lamp post Black horse Alley. If you are playing square go and set on it to-morrow morning 21st 10.22 not sooner not later wait till I come." The friends cogitated over the note profoundly. Presently the earl said: "Don't you reckon he's afraid we are a sheriff with a requisition?" "Why, m'lord?" "Because that's no place for a seance.
Gradually an inarticulate melancholy succeeded; he wept gently at times; would stop in the middle of the road, say firmly, "No, no, no," and then fall on his back; or else address me solemnly as "M'lord" and fall on his face by way of variety. I am afraid I was not always so gentle with the little pig as I might have been, but really the position was unbearable.
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