"Get to thunder out of this, you old fool," said Quin, "or I'll have you kicked off the place!"
She looked at him steadily and held up a long fragment of the silk before him.
"Mika kumtuks okook, you know him?" she asked with a hideous leer.
And Quin came off the step and went up to her.
"Where you get it, Annie?"
"You know," said Annie. "Tenas toketie have him, you give him, ah. But who tear him, makum kokshut?"
"Pete?" asked Quin with the devil of a face on him. But Annie walked a little away and beckoned him to follow. She got him round the corner and he went with her like a child. He thought he understood. Annie put out her claw and took his coat.
"I give you klootchman often, now you give me tukamonuk dolla, one hundred dolla, and I give you pretty Jenny."
Quin blew out his breath and bent down to her.
"You old devil," he said with a wavering grin.