Part 17 (2/2)
”Well, I don't know as anyone'll mind, Master Aleck, if I speaks to 'eentle as you sees or hears--”
”What! How can a gentle the law?”
”How? Why, by just saying as he won't”
”A gentle”
The , sharply:
”Then how's a man to trust yer?”
”I don't know,” said Aleck, carelessly, ”but I'll tell you this If I'd wanted to I could have found out whether you've got a place to hide your stuff, as you call it, long enough ago”
”I don't know so rin
”Well, then, I could have told the Revenue cutter's men where they had better look”
”But you won't, Master Aleck? We are neighbours, you know”
”Neighbours!” said Aleck, scornfully ”Pretty neighbours! There, I' to alter my words I shall entleman, and I'll trust yer,” said the man; ”for I s'pose I must But I don't knohat some of our lads'll say”
”Then I'd better tell et the Revenue cutter's lers, because they pushed o and do that,” said the man, anxiously ”I didn't mean it”
”Am I to believe that, Eben?” said the boy, sharply
The h, and put his hands round his neck in a peculiar way
”Look here, Master Aleck,” he said; ” drownded”
”Of course”
”And one who tries to dodge the Revenue sailors has to take his chance of getting a cut from a bit o' steel or a bullet in hih, arn't it?”
”Yes”
”Bad enough for -- you knohat I ling's not got much harm in it, but they call it murder when a man kills a man”