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I rose to try and get them out of the office; but a sober man with tied arms among a drunken crew is at a disadvantage. "Ha old wise sh head! To be sh shure! Whur d' y' hide it?" "Throw it out of the window," said I, without the slightest idea of leading him into mischief. "Whish whish ish the window, Rufush?" asked Louis imploringly.
"This doesn't open," said I, which was quite true, for I did not try to budge it. Then I went across to the mirror. "Neither does this," said I. "Wha' wha' 'll we do Rufush?" "I'll tell you. You can jump through a window but not through a glass. Now you count one two three," this to the red-faced man "and when you say 'three' I'll give a run and jump.
But while Louis Laplante gulped down his rum, becoming drunker and more communicative, the tempter threw glass after glass over his shoulder and remained sober. The Nor'-Wester motioned me to keep behind the Frenchman and I heard his drunken lips mumbling my own name. "Rufush prig stuck-up prig serve him tam right! Hamilton's sh sh prig too sho's his wife. Serve 'em all tam right!"
"Ask him where she is," I whispered over his head. "Where's the gal?" demanded the trader, shoving more liquor over to Louis. "Shioux squaw Devil's wife how you say it in English? Lah Grawnd Deeahble," and he mouthed over our mispronunciation of his own tongue "Joke, isn't it?" he went on. "That wax-face prig slave to Shioux Squaw. Rufush a fool. Stuffed him to hish neck.
"Both winders, I tell you, and both lookin'-glasses," vowed the man. The other four fellows declined to express an opinion for the very good reason that two were asleep and two befuddled beyond questioning. "See here, Louis," I exclaimed, "there's only one way to tell where to throw that bottle." "Yesh, Rufush," and he came to me as if I were his only friend on earth.
"The very thing, Rufush, wise sh head old old ol' solemncholy," and he ripped the ropes off me. Now I offer no excuse for what I did. I could have opened that window and let myself out some distance ahead of the bottle, without involving Louis and his gang in greater mischief. What I did was not out of spite to the governor of a rival company; but mischief, as I said, was in the very air.
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