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well at last i got a sort of plan i was always a bit good at planning though carrying it out isn't so much in my line i thought it all out and settled on a plan first i was going to take all my pockets full of these here half crowns see and afterwards as i shall tell
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mr brisher by means of enigmatical facework tried to make me think he had the best of that argument but i knew better i went out in a huff at last but not before i was pretty sure i had to lift that treasure by myself the only thing that kept me was thinking how i'd take it out of him when i had the cash there was a lengthy pause
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if she ain't dead or married to some one else or anything i'm engaged still now he confirmed this statement with nods and facial contortions still he said ending the pantomime and broke into a reckless smile at my surprise me run away he explained further with coruscating eyebrows come ome
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i don't suppose i slept a wink any of those nights thinking where i was to take it what i was to do with it how i was to explain it it made me regular ill and days i was that dull it made jane regular huffy you ain't the same old chap you was in london she says several times i tries to lay it on her father and his snacks but bless you she knew better
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what must she have that i'd got another girl on my mind said that wasn't true well we had a bit of a row but i was that set on the treasure i didn't seem to mind a bit anything she said
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and you mean to say i began wait a bit said mr brisher i say i'd made my plan that put the kybosh on one bit but it didn't hurt the general scheme not a bit
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i made no vulgar clamour for a story but i became attentive to mr brisher's bodily needs and presently i led him back to the deserted lady she was a nice girl he said a little sadly i thought and respectable he raised his eyebrows and tightened his mouth to express extreme respectability beyond the likes of us elderly men
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he was pensive for a little while thinking as we must all come to think sooner or later of the vanished brightness of youth but he refrained as one may do in taprooms from the obvious moral
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well i got to that state i couldn't think of getting at the treasure again in the daytime so i waited until the night before i had to go and then when everything was still up i gets and slips down to the back door meaning to get my pockets full what must i do in the scullery but fall over a pail
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it was a long way from ere essex in fact near colchester it was when i was up in london in the buildin trade i was a smart young chap then i can tell you slim ad best clo'esa s good as anybody
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i went and i finished that rockery the next day as though there wasn't a snack in the world cemented over the stones i did dabbed it green and everything i put a dab of green just to show where the box was they all came and looked at it and said how nice it was even he was a bit softer like to see it
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she lived at home with her father and mother quite the lady in a very nice little house with a garden and remarkable respectable people they was rich you might call 'em a most they owned their own house got it out of the building society and cheap because the chap who had it before was a burglar and in prison and they had a bit of free old land and some cottages and money invested all nice and tight
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e didn't said mr brisher not then anyhow arever after all that was over off i set for london off i set for london pause
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i pretended i did and when this chap married her sister him and me was great friends what must he do but ask me down to colchester close by where she lived naturally i was introduced to her people and well very soon her and me was engaged he repeated engaged
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i'd left the spade just where i could find it i'd got everything planned and right i ired a little trap in colchester and pretended i wanted to go to ipswich and stop the night and come back the next day and the chap i ired it from made me leave two sovrings on it right away and off i set i didn't go to no ipswich neither
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i got to know her through a chap what was engaged to her sister she was stopping in london for a bit with an aunt that had a ham and beef shop this aunt was very particular they was all very particular people all her people was and wouldn't let her sister go out with this feller except her other sister my girl that is went with them so he brought me into it sort of to ease the crowding
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and besides considering i was marrying into the family i thought it would be nicer like if it came through me put me on a better footing so to speak well i'd had three days before me left of my holidays so there wasn't no hurry so i covered it up and went on digging and tried to puzzle out how i was to make sure of it only i couldn't
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only i wasn't going to no london said mr brisher with sudden animation and thrusting his face into mine no fear what do you think i didn't go no further than colchester not a yard
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we used to go walks in battersea park of a sunday afternoon me in my topper and im in is and all the girls well stylish there wasn't many in battersea park ad the larf of us she wasn't what you'd call pretty but a nicer girl i never met i liked er from the start and well though i say it who shouldn't she liked me you know ow it is i daresay
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he was always great on singing hearty to the lord and when he got out of tune half the people went after him always he was that sort of man and to walk behind him in his nice black clothes is hat was a brimmer made one regular proud to be engaged to such a father-in-law and when the summer came i went down there and stopped a fortnight
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i made a sympathetic noise and down at the bottom of their garden was a bit of wild part like so i says to him why don't you have a rockery here i says it'd look nice too much expense he says not a penny says i i'm a dab at rockeries lemme make you one you see i'd helped my brother make a rockery in the beer garden behind his tap so i knew how to do it right
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i hoisted one end sort of wild like and over the whole show went with a tremendous noise perfect smash of silver and then right on the heels of that flash lightning like the day and there was the back door open and the old man coming down the garden with his blooming old gun he wasn't not a hundred yards away
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i tell you i was that upset i didn't think what i was doing i never stopped not even to fill my pockets i went over the fence like a shot and ran like one o'clock for the trap cussing and swearing as i went i was in a state
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i couldn't no more lift it than fly i was sick i'd never thought of that i got regular wild i tell you i cursed i got sort of outrageous i didn't think of dividing it like for the minute and even then i couldn't ave took money about loose in a trap
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now you know there was a sort of itch said mr brisher we wanted to marry me and jane did and get things settled but he said i had to get a proper position first consequently there was a itch consequently when i went down there i was anxious to show that i was a good useful sort of chap like show i could do pretty nearly everything like see
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i kep'on i whacked at it-i didn't dream the old man would ear i didn't even trouble to go quiet with the spade and the thunder and lightning and ail seemed to excite me like i shouldn't wonder if i was singing i got so ard at it i clean forgot the thunder and the orse and trap i precious soon got the box showing and started to lift it heavy i said
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it was what you'd call snug and warm i tell you i was on furniture too why they add a pianner jane her name was jane used to play it sundays and very nice she played too there wasn't hardly any tune in the book she couldn't play
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mr brisher was pensive for an interval i was done he repeated very bitterly well i said that's all said mr brisher you didn't go back
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what a treasure dug up yes buried wealth treasure trove come out of the ground where i kept on saying regular treasure he looked at me with unusual disrespect
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no fear i'd ad enough of that blooming treasure any'ow for a bit besides i didn't know what was done to chaps who tried to collar a treasure trove i started off for london there and then
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wasn't more than a foot deep not the top of it he said i'd ardly got thirsty like before i come on the corner go on i said i didn't understand why directly i hit the box i knew it was treasure a sort of instinct told me something seemed to shout inside of me now's your chance lie low
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i thought said mr brisher and i thought once i got regular doubtful whether i'd seen it or not i went down to it and had it uncovered again just as her ma came out to hang up a bit of washing she'd done jumps again afterwards i was just thinking i'd have another go at it when jane comes to tell me dinner was ready you'll want it she says seeing all the hole you've dug
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rights lemme make you one i says it's olidays but i'm that sort of chap i ate doing nothing i says i'll make you one to rights and the long and the short of it was he said i might and that's ow i come on the treasure what treasure i asked why said mr brisher the treasure i'm telling you about what's the reason why i never married
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and will you believe me when i got to the place where i'd left the horse and trap they'd gone off when i saw that i hadn't a cuss left for it i just danced on the grass and when i'd danced enough i started off to london i was done
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jane was a nice girl he said a thorough nice girl mind you if jealous and there's no knowing i mightn't have gone back to her after a bit i thought if he didn't give up the treasure i might have sort of an hold on him
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kicked the lid on again and covered it up like a shot and went on digging about a yard away from it like mad and my face so to speak was laughing on its own account till i had it hid i tell you i was regular scared like at my luck
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it's lucky i knew the laws of treasure trove or i'd have been shoutin' there and then i daresay you know crown bags it i said all but one percent go on it's a shame what did you do
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issuing counterfeit coins he said counterfeit coins you don't mean to say yes it bad quite a long case they've made of it but they got him though he dodged tremendous traced his having passed oh nearly a dozen bad off crowns
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uncovered the top of the box there wasn't anybody in the garden or about like jane was helping her mother do the house i was excited i'll tell you i tried the lock and then gave it a whack at the hinges open it came silver coins full shining it made me tremble to see 'em
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and you never went back never but about jane did you write three times fishing like and no answer we'd parted in a bit of a huff on account of her being jealous so that i couldn't make out for certain what it meant i didn't know what to do i didn't even know whether the old man knew it was me
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and just then i'm blessed if the dustman didn't come round the back of the house pretty nearly gave me heart disease think what a fool i was to have all that money showing and directly after i heard the chap next door he was holidaying too i heard him watering his beans if only he'd looked over the fence what did you do
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i just thought that it had to be kept close and that was all treasure i kept whisperin' to myself treasure and hundreds of pounds hundreds hundreds of pounds whispering to myself like and digging like blazes it seemed to me that box was regular sticking out and showing like your legs do under the sheets in bed
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well one day i looks as usual under colchester and there i saw his name what for do you think i could not guess mr brisher's voice sank to a whisper and once more he spoke behind his hand his manner was suddenly suffused with a positive joy
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he always called me a jackanapes somehow knows how to put is back into it after all seemed quite impressed by it he did how long was the box i asked suddenly how long said mr brisher yes in length oh bout so by so mr brisher indicated a moderate sized trunk full said i
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and i went and put all the earth i'd got out of my hole for the rockery slap on top of it i was in a sweat and in the midst of it all out toddles her father he didn't say anything to me just stood behind me and stared but jane told me afterwards when he went indoors he says that there jackanapes of yours jane
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full up of silver coins half crowns i believe why i cried that would mean hundreds of pounds thousands said mr brisher in a sort of sad calm i calculated it out but how did it get there
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i was in a regular daze all dinner wondering whether that chap next door wasn't over the fence and filling his pockets but in the afternoon i got easier in my mind it seemed to me it must have been there so long it was pretty sure to stop a bit longer and i tried to get up a bit of a discussion to draw out the old man and see what he thought of treasure trove
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all i know is where i found what i thought at the time was this the chap who'd owned the house before her father had been a regular slap-up burglar what you'd call a high class criminal used to drive his trap like peace did
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lor e did let me ave it mr brisher affected an insincere amusement e was well what you might call a rare and at snacks said that was the sort of friend e'd naturally expect me to ave said e'd naturally expect that from the friend of a out-of-work loafer who took up with daughters who didn't belong to im
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just to draw him out i told a story of a chap i said i knew pretending you know who'd found a sovereign in an overcoat he'd borrowed i said he stuck to it but i said i wasn't sure whether that was right or not and then the old man began
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there i couldn't tell you off he said you went on most outrageous i stood up to him about it just to draw him out wouldn't you stick to it arf sov not if you found it in the street i says certainly not he says certainly i wouldn't what not if you found it as a sort of treasure
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mr brisher's treasure you can't be too careful who you marry said mr brisher and pulled thoughtfully with a fat wristed hand at the lank moustache that hides his want of chin
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that's why i ventured yes said mister brisher with a solemn light in his bleary blue-grey eyes moving his head expressively and breathing alcohol intimately at me there's lots as have try at me many as i could name in this town-but none have done it none i
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mr brisher paused and affected amusement at the memory the old man was a scorcher he said a regular scorcher what said i did he it was like this explained mr brisher laying a friendly hand on my arm and breathing into my face to calm me
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i surveyed the flushed countenance the equatorial expansion the masterly carelessness of his attire and heaved a sigh to think that by reason of the unworthiness of women he must needs be the last of his race
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young man there's higher authority than mine render unto caesar what is it yes well he fetched up that a rare and hitting you over the head with the bible was the old man and so he went on he got to such snacks about me last i couldn't stand it i'd promised jane not to answer him back but it got a bit too thick i i give it to him
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true to the bond you gave and will not break and fearless in the fight for conscience sake against giant robber clad in steel with blood of trampled belgium on his heel striding through france to strike you down at last britain stand fast
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stand fast brave land the huns are thundering toward the citadel they prate of culture but their path is hell their light is darkness and the bloody sword they wield and worship is their only lord
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stand fast dear land thou island mother of a world-wide race whose children speak thy tongue and love thy face their hearts and hopes are with thee in the strife their hands will break the sword that seeks thy life fight on until the teuton madness cease
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o land where reason stands secure on right o land where freedom is the source of light against the mailed barbarians deadly blast britain stand fast
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what pipe was ever thus beatifying in effect you are aching all over and enjoying it and the scent of limes drifts in through the window this is undoubtedly the best and greatest country in the world and none but good fellows abide in it
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laud we the gods and let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils from our blest altars end of the romance of the road
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but the getting back to them is now a matter of effort of set purpose a stepping aside out of our ordinary course they are no longer unsought influences towards the making of character
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all that lay between a day's ride a life's romance was the excellent title of an unsuccessful book and indeed the journey should march with the day beginning and ending with its sun to be the complete thing the golden round required of it
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to all these natural bounds and limitations it is good to get back now and again from a life assisted and smooth by artificialities where iron has superseded muscle the kindly life-blood is apt to throb dull as the measured beat of the steam-engine
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this makes that mind and body fare together hand in hand sharing the hope the action the fruition finding equal sweetness in the languor of aching limbs at eve
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not fully nor worthily perhaps until it too is a vanished regret though emerson for one will not have it so and maintains and justifies its right to immediate recognition as poetic material
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so perhaps the time of them has gone by here in this second generation of steam pereunt et imputantur they pass away and are scored against not us but our guilty fathers for ourselves our peculiar slate is probably filling fast the romance of the steam-engine is yet to be captured and expressed
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disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts so that he looks upon the factory village and the railway and sees them fall within the great order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web
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for as it is dislocation and detachment from the life of god that makes things ugly the poet who re attaches things to nature and the whole re attaching even artificial things and violations of nature to nature by a deeper insight
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the little engine tethered well ahead as if between traces to those bred within sight of the sea steamers will always partake in somewhat of the beauty and mystery of the ships
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recording by will cooper the romance of the road by kenneth grahame among the many places of magic visited by pantagruel and his company during the progress of their famous voyage few surpass that island whose roads did literally go to places
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and even in a certain work by another and a very different painter though i will willingly acquit mr frith of any deliberate romantic intention you shall find the element of romance in the vestiges of the old order still lingering in the first transition period the coach shaped railway carriages with luggage piled and corded on top the red-coated guard
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the romance of the rail by kenneth graham in these iron days of the dominance of steam the crowning wrong that is wrought us of furnace and piston-rod lies in their annihilation of the steadfast mystery of the horizon so that the imagination no longer begins to work at the point where vision ceases
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au lieu destin the best example i know of an approach to this excellent sort of vitality in roads is the ridgeway of the north berkshire downs join it at streatley the point where it crosses the thames
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and in the first god-like intoxication of motion with braced muscle in the sun for walk or ride take the mind over greater distances than a throbbing whirl with stiffening joints and cramped limbs through a dozen counties
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the poet however seems hard to convince hereof emerson will have it that nature loves the gilding train of cars instead of which the poet still goes about the country singing purling brooks
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painters have been more flexible and liberal turner saw and did his best to seize the spirit of the thing its kinship with the elements and to blend furnace glare and rush of iron with the storm shower the wind and the thwart flashing sunrays and to make the whole a single expression of irresoluble force
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in the days where streets were less wearily familiar than now or even the golden cord was quite loosed that led back to relinquished fields and wider skies i have lain awake on stifling summer nights thinking of luckier friends by moor and stream and listening for the whistles from certain railway stations
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barrack's at the sandwich counter watch crystal is standing in the line in the front of the hot table he murmured they prolonged the task of filling their water glasses until barrack with an almost empty tray made his way through the room to a table for six in a far corner
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ken gulped he was aware of a convulsive movement on sandy's part the beginning of a vast guffaw that sandy nobly controlled and he turned his head to avoid sandy's glance what else you wanted to know if the box was valuable lausch went on
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ken stalled around at the tray counter collecting unnecessary amounts of knives forks and spoons until he caught sandy's eye on him then he moved on to the water fountain sandy shortly joined him there with his own tray of assortment of cutlery
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and in this case he said cheerfully unaware of ken's reaction to his first statement i'm afraid you will find the news not so pleasant sintelli said that this box is in excellent condition but that even so it is not worth more than fifteen or twenty dollars in american money
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it was more than cold at six thirty the next morning when ken hurried sandy out of the apartment and along a quiet gray street toward barrack's address it was bitter
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the man came out and moved purposefully toward the corner sandy was close behind him their quarry descended into the subway station at the corner and the boys followed he boarded an uptown train and they got into the next car standing where they could see him through the glass topped door between
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sandy bristled for a moment and then gave it up okay he said i admit i'm curious about the whole business and if lausch has some interesting news for us in the morning but that won't be until ten o'clock ken pointed out he walked toward the kitchen and opened the refrigerator door
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sandy obviously enjoying himself answered him oh perfectly he said it all fits in perfectly with a little old theory ken has whipped up he dropped a heavy hand on ken's shoulder in a mocking congratulation doesn't it ken old boy
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when the train pulled into times square station the man got off and headed for the street but before he passed through the exit turnstile he suddenly reversed his direction walking straight back toward them
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maybe he'll go down to the tobacco market maybe he won't maybe he'll start right out on his sales route anything's possible ken agreed i want to be there to see
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and in the meantime ken went on putting milk and bread and ham and cheese on the table and beginning to cut bread for sandwiches i'd like to keep an eye on barrack's rooming house in the morning when it's time for him to leave for work
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valuable antique very valuable worth almost a dime a dozen unless of course he added cocking his head on one side and studying the box intently it is instead an ingenious copy of a valuable antique made by some nefarious criminal
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when a mastermind like yourself gets really tangled up in his own theories when he is knocked out by the weight of his own genius now where are you going he demanded as ken got up and started toward the boys' bedroom in the rear of the apartment sandy followed him
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right sandy agreed he still had the surprised expression he'd had worn ever since the man first appeared in the cafeteria entrance ken waited in the doorway adjoining the cafeteria until a few minutes later
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put it on his knees under his recovered napkin and then went on eating but now he seemed suddenly in a hurry gulping his food in large mouthfuls never mind barrack ken said let's see where he goes he picked up the second half of his sandwich i'll finish this outside you stay here until he leaves
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go right ahead enjoy yourself ken told him slumping into a chair without bothering to remove his overcoat sandy swung around to grin at him you can't blame me can you
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ken had pointed out that sandy ought to wear a hat to hide his all too obvious red hair and for once sandy had raised no objections but he had complained loudly when ken insisted that they both put on sunglasses to further conceal their identity
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you stay here and i'll go up the next corner ken suggested that way we'll be able to pick him up whichever way he turns when he comes out of the house alright but if he doesn't come out soon i'll be picking up double pneumonia instead sandy warned
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they boarded a train already waiting on the nearest track and were whisked across manhattan to the east side there the man made his way down a flight of stairs to the station platform for a downtown subway from where they stood at the head of the stairs the boys could see him
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you haven't answered my question sandy entirely serious now sat down on the edge of the bed what the idea of changing your clothes where are you going for a moment ken didn't answer and then he said reluctantly
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the man was dressed this time in a battered hat and a well-worn overcoat and he was walking briskly toward the corner where ken stood ken could see that sandy had already left his own post and was coming along behind barrack ken stepped hastily inside a convenient hallway
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