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"A' right," her hero would snuffle. One day he added, with a weakly swoop of one lean arm in the direction of her waist: "Mend me an' marry me. That's wot I call a Fair Division o' Labour. Twig?" She crimsoned, gasping: "You don't never mean it?" "Stryte I mean it," declared W. Keyse. "Wot d'you tyke me for?" His bed was in a corner, and a screen baffled prying eyes.
"I'd gie 'im to ye, mon, gin it wasna that the bit lassie wad greet her bonny een oot gin I didna fetch 'im hame. Nae boot the bit tyke wad 'a' deed gin ye hadna fed 'im." "Eh, man, he'll no' bide with me, or I'd be bargaining for him. And he'll no' be permitted to live in the kirkyard. I know naething in this life more pitiful than a masterless, hameless dog."
"It is very nice of you, M'riarr. I am fond of you, M'riarr." "I knows yer is; I knows yer is," said M'riar. "Tyke me with yer, won't yer, Miss?" "Oh, I couldn't take you with me," Anna answered, as she laid a kind, if queenly hand upon the poor thing's cheek. "But you must let me know just where you are at all times, and, perhaps, some day, I will send you something to remind you of me."
Smothering a smile at his irreverent description of my uncle, I asked my poacher a final question. 'Have you ever seen the ghost of the man or the collie dog they talk about here in the park? 'Not I, said he, fondling the ears of his savage mongrel retriever, 'I reckon they're gliffed o' my aad Tyke.
"Wullie, Wullie, to me!" he called. At that, with one last threat thrown at the' thousand souls he had held at bay for thirty minutes, the Tailless Tyke swung about and galloped after his lord. ALL Friday M'Adam never left the kitchen. He sat opposite the Cup, in a coma, as it were; and Red Wull lay motionless at his feet. Saturday came, and still the two never budged.
'If yo're so set upo' knowing who t' fellow was, a could, mebbe, put yo' on his tracks. 'How? said Hester, eagerly. 'I do want to know. I want to know very much, and for a good reason. 'Well, then, a'll tell yo'. He's a queer tyke, that one is. A'll be bound he were sore pressed for t' brass; yet he out's wi' a good half-crown, all wrapped up i' paper, and he axes me t' make a hole in it.
If we have to call in any one to translate it, we'll be taking the whole world into the secret, if there is any secret worth taking about." "Don't let that worry you," Drew intervened. "I think I know enough Spanish to be able to make out the paper." There was an exclamation of delight from Captain Hamilton and a snort of surprise from Tyke.
A sailor stepped to my side and slipped something hard and cold into my hand. I did not have to look at it to know that it was a heavy pistol. "Tyke 'er an' use 'er," was all he said. Our bow was pointed straight toward the U-boat now as I heard word passed to the engine for full speed ahead.
Therefore, in order to save a collision between his father and his friend a collision the issue of which he dared hardly contemplate, knowing, as he did, the unalterable determination of the one and the lunatic passion of the other the boy had resolved to fetch the Cup himself, then and there, in the teeth, if needs be, of his father and the Tailless Tyke. And he had done it.
But now " here he paused. "Well, but now," repeated Tyke. "You know just as well as I do what I'm meaning," blurted out Captain Hamilton. "This matter of Parmalee's death has got to be cleared up before I'd even consider him in connection with Ruth. You can't blame me for that, Tyke." The old man's face clouded.
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