“Great snakes! Do you mean to say there was another—maybe more. Oh, my—oh, my!”
“Dit I take her on de cars or on a ship?”
“I don’t know that, but you got there, all right, all right. Say, pardner, I’ve got a little job on. There’s a geezer upstairs just loaded with gold, so much that it tires him all over to carry it. I’ve got a hunch that we could get it all without the least trouble. What say?”
“Do you mean to rob him?”
“That’s about the size of it!”
“Vell, you can count me out.”
“Ah, bah! you are poor, I can see that; and it’s dead easy——”
“It’s deader easier to be honest, and don’t you forget it. Come, you are a decent feller, dough you don’t treat strangers too goot. I dell you vot I do: I teach you de telegraphers’ peezness. It don’t make so much money as teifs do, but it is honest.”
“Telegraphy? You an operator?”
“Sure. I learnt dot, but ven I got marrit I gif it up. But vonce you know it, you always know it——”