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He think now s'no one like you in the world, 'he help me a lot, Shoni, he say, 'with his Latin and his Greek, and the Vicare, he says, 'it wass wonderful how many books he got on his shelfs! and indeed I think," continued Shoni, "the two old men will live much longer now they got their noses over the same old book so often!"
"This young man wass very violent, Hipps," he muttered jerkily. "I donno s'no use seems." "Are we beat, Chief?" "I don't like this word 'beat. Mus' be a way." He paused for a moment to recover his breath then turned to Laurence. "This Miss Craven, she hass not arrifed yet?" "She's here. Came five minutes ago." "She know how we stand, yes?" Hipps nodded.
"Of course we let you go to sleep if you waas sensible. Consider now the small shareholders that look to us for their little incomes. All these widows from the war. You speak and you wass a rich man all at once. Very soon forget the discomforts of these three weeks. S'no goot no goot to make a fuss." "I have nothing to say." "Ach!" said Van Diest and rose.
And he tilted his head suggestively toward Richard's bedroom. "His own damn fault," came the answer. "But it wass a man's life, Hipps." "I've no choice that way myself." Van Diest began to pace the floor, his fingers tattooing on his chest and his head going from side to side. "We ought to haf read better the character of this man. S'no good to know about the monies and not about the mens.
"Whadda you know about me an' Jack Harpe?" she demanded. "Not as much as I'd like to know," was his frank reply. "I ain't talkin'." Shortly. "Now, lookit here " he began, wheedlingly. She shook her head at him. "S'no use. I don't tell everything I know." "Then you do know something about Jack Harpe?" "I didn't say I did." "You didn't. But " "That's what the goat done to the stone wall.
"Mr. Torrington and all those peoples are very happy to believe that Barraclough hass given us the slip. S'no goot to make them miserable." "Still if without attracting attention " "You run along and play," said Hipps. And so the interview ended. Smith was heartily offended to be brushed aside in this fashion. He had served his employers faithfully and with sound intelligence.
I imagine you aren't wanting the fire brigade or the intrusion of any other respectable force at the moment." "Seems to me, my son " began Hipps. But Van Diest interrupted him. "Let us agree to this suggestion," he said. "For my part I wass very sorry to make enemy of our goot guest. S'no troubles about that." "Thank you," said Richard.
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