"
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. The boy doesn't know it, but I dug into his trunk for something to identify
him and stumbled upon some manuscripts. There
was a tearing sound and the cloth of her habit ripped apart as the smothered
point drove through it, missing its intended target. Saws,
hammers, planes, axes, augers, adzes, chisels, gimblets, and an endless variety of
tools were ranged, like a stand of martial weapons at an armoury, in racks
against the walls. An hour later the doctor arrived; and after a thorough examination, he looked
doubtful. In the north they called her Manitou, in the south,
Pabothkew. We’ll be
somewhere on the floor above. ’
Her conversation was wonderful, Gerald decided. "
"Then you're heartily welcome, Sir, whoever you are. Wood grasped his companion's arm to attract his attention to this unexpected
means of escape. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden
and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that
his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain
some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to
be turned to account hereafter. "We shall have the whole village upon us while you're striking
the jigger. And if I hadn't been thirsty, that poor boob would have made a
sure getaway and left James Boyle high and dry among the moth-balls! Oh, the
old dome works once every so often.
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