"Too old to go fishin', sah, Colonel? No sah! You'll never be dat!
Never!"
"Oh, I don't mean fishing, Shag! I mean I never ought to have been mixed up with this affair—this detective business. I'm going to quit now, Shag!"
"Yes, sah, Colonel!"
"Get me Kedge on the long distance."
"Mr. Kedge, in N' York, sah?"
"Yes. I'm going to turn this over to him. It's getting on my nerves.
I want to go fishing. I'll let him work out the rest of the problems.
Get Kedge on the wire."
"Yes, sah, Colonel."
The colored man went to the instrument, but before he had engaged the attention of central his master called:
"Oh, Shag!"
"Yes, sah, Colonel."