Sentence:  "But lor-a-mussy, Jacob, how could a woman get away from here with all her boxes in the middle of the night?" / "That's what <WSD>queered</WSD> me," and Spink slowly shook his head, "and <WSD>queered</WSD> a good many; for of course it got newsed about ..." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To puzzle.