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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...me?" I gasped. "'Course I am. Yer don't suppose we're goin' to 'ave some one walkin' about, knowin' our bizness, and no 'casion to 'old 'er tongue, do yer?" "You would be hanged!" "'Course we should--when they cotched us." "Tell me what you want me to do," I cried, springing to the door, and holding back the weazel's hand as he began to put the boards and furze against it. "Thought I'd told yer already," he said defiantly, opening his knife and feeling its edge. "I think seein' wot sort yer are, it would be better to quiet yer. However," he added, after a moment's reflection, "I don't want to be uncivil if we can help it, an' if yer likes to agree to what I've told yer, well an' good," and he hesitated again. "Wot you've got to do is," he went on, taking it for granted, from the expression on my face, that I had given way, "yer're to take care of them things and not to touch 'em, or to let a soul know as you've got 'em, but just to wait till we asks for them. Yer won't find it any trouble, and yer needn't tell us if yer want to move about, pervided, as I said before, yer doesn't leave the country; we knows yer main address, and as there's five of us, one or the other will generally manage to have a eye upon yer, though likely yer won't be able to tell where it is. Now, once for all, does yer agree to it or not? The weazel and me 'as bizness we must start on, an can't fool any longer." "Very well," I said, feeling that, literally, there was nothing else to be done. He shut up the knife and put it back in his pocket. "That's right," he said. "Now you've got to go down on your knees and swear--down you go." Too...
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