I
have seen that girl on the deck, and I like the cut of her jib. I like
the way she walks. Her independence suits me. She is a girl who wouldn't
give a man any trouble, now, I tell you, if he were lucky enough to win
her. And I am not going to see that girl put to any trouble by you,
understand that!'
'And how are you going to prevent it, may I ask?'
'May you ask? Why, of course you may. I will tell you how I am going
to prevent it. Simply by restraining you from doing another thing in
the matter.'
'If you think you can do that, you are very much mistaken. I am going to
have that girl put in prison, if there is a law in the land.'
'Well, in the first place, we are not on land; and, in the second place,
you are going to do nothing of the kind, because, if you do, I shall go
to the London correspondents of the other New York papers and give the
whole blessed snap away. I'll tell them how the smart and cute Miss Dolly
Dimple, who has bamboozled so many persons in her life, was once caught
in her own trap; and I shall inform them how it took place. And they'll
be glad to get it, you bet! It will make quite interesting reading in the
New York opposition papers some fine Sunday morning--about a column and a
half, say. Won't there be some swearing in the _Argus_ when that appears!
It won't be your losing the despatch you were going to send, but it will
be your utter idiocy in making the thing public, and letting the other
papers on to it.
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