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They made their way to the inn of The Three Kings where two men stood watching as they approached. One of them Jack recognized as the man Slops with the black pipe in his mouth. "That's him," said the man with the black pipe pointing at Solomon, whereupon the latter was promptly arrested. "What have I done?" he asked. "You'll learn directly at 'eadquarters," said the officer.
"An' you'd 'ave bin joined by a Dutch dodger and settled down on a Vaal sheep-farm, if the order 'adn't come 'ummin' along the wire from 'Eadquarters that said, 'Jane 'Arris, you're to 'ave this bloke, and no other. Till Death do you part. Everlasting Amen!" There was so strong a flavour of Church about the final sentence that Mrs. Keyse could not keep admiration out of her eyes.
'Well, they've moved 'is 'eadquarters from London to Manchester. There was a tense silence, broken only by Elizabeth's hard breathing on a brass paper-weight ere she polished it with her sleeve. 'If 'e goes to Manchester, there I goes, she went on; 'I suppose I'd quite easy get a situation there? 'Quite easy, I acquiesced in a hollow voice. She went out leaving me chill and dejected.
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