The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-24

sudden ferocity. wish I'd i'm ere;
I'd squeeze the cart out O. him."
"Wot fur? Didn't e git y the swag
-moy Swag-cuss W"
mo, e didn't. an eff e SEE e did,
'e's a lara bloomin'. busted liar,
sinners to 'imself, cuss 'imr
''Thet's a id lie, y sneakin' dorg?'
said Bill, politely.
M I die if faint gorspeI truth"
yelped Monkey. Look zee ere, ole
pal"
Don't y call me palp' interrupted
Bill, savagely. Il amt no pal O.
yourn, V terbaccer faced son of a
bloomin' 'angman! Liz blew the gaff
on me pOpin' that himage, and V tried
TO git m swag when I was dom time.
An y did get it, y"
I didn't t." snapped Monkey inter-
rupting in his turn. "The kid stuck
to the swag, L tell y. Course I knowed
of them dimins!"
Course V did" growIed William.
ironically. Didn't I tell v low I crack
erd that crib in Curzon street, an
prigged tn dimins an tn himage?
Yah! y cuss."
Il knows y did. Bill An YOU toIe
me 'ow y slowed the swag inside the
doll. My heye that was sharp of
= y q
I didn't know Y popped the doll till
Liz told me. She sawr Y goin' in t
that popshirp with the Chiner thing
under yer arm: an"
And you'd set 'er after me-" cried
Bill, savagely. "She didn5t git int
Lambeth on the chance!"
'Yus." said Monkey, dogsedIy. II
did put FER on yer trail. Y hid the dim
ms I'm that image, and cleared out
with it. I couldn't foller meself, SO I
set Liz ont We. She tole me as 'ow
y'd popped tn thing; so when v wos
dom time 1 tried to git it again, tho
that young cuss 'es sold me-"
''Blimme, but I've a moind to slit
yer throat" said Bill, furiously ''Wot
| d V mean tryin' to collier my swag?''
Why, fur yer own sake Bill. s'eIp
/ me I thort the gal might fin out. But
y needn't git up, Bill; I didn't git
them dimins. The boy hes them"
That's a lie, I tell w
faint, When I tole the kid about
/ the dimins he stole 'em sure, an Ief
tn doll so es the pawnshop gal
wouldn't fin out. But I never saw
| i'm again. though 1 watched the shorp
/ like a bloomin' tyke. The boy cleared
/ out with them dimins. I wish I'd i'm
| 'erei I'd choke the little d.
! Bill reflected. and slipped the knife
/ into his pocket. Without doubt Mon
/ key was speaking the truth; he was toe
/ savagely in earnest to be telling q
/ falsehood- Moreover, if he really pos
sesser the diamonds, he would not re
main hard UP and miserable in the
! thieves quarter of dingy Whitechapel
No; Bolker had kept the jewels and
had deceived Monkey; more than that
/ in the interview on the ruined wharf
| he had deceived Bill himself. Pridine
! himself on his astuteness, Mr.. Smith
felt savage at having been sold by z
mere boy
IF I kin on'y git i'm aginl" ht
thought. when leaving the Three
Kings, I'll take the cad OFF m and
chuck lis crooked karkus int the rive
| mud"
But he found it difficult TO lay hand:
on Bolker. although for more than Z
week ne haunted the shop in Leicester
square. Warned by his one experience
that Bill was q. dangerous person Il
/ NEEDLE with, Bolker had given motto.
to his employers, and at present wa,
in hiding. Also. he was arranging Z
little scheme whereby TO rid himsel
of Larky Bills inopportunities. Varl
was the man who undertook to carr
out the details Of the scheme; and
( Hagar vas consulted also with regarC
to its completion. These three people
| Vark. Hagsr, and Bolker, laid an In
genious trap for unsuspecting Bill, int
| which he walked without a thought O