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TOM GALLON..
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CHAPTER X.
THE SWINGIŅU READ.
Araperies. Mr. Pipe ran out into the shop
ill holding the little gem. Ho glanced all about him, and then pulled open the door, and looted up and down the stovet; finally canno back into the shop,
I thought he wouldn't face it," he said,
with a chnaicle. "That manlian of this cou stable frightened him. Well, it isn't of'en they give you things like this."
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It was that of swinging. A ghastly ing of a done; than the fod staabisi on tho whits face swung slowly derous the posed pari staircase. Sime, with a minttered cath, spráng, of the window, and the deup oyes, in that the lantern, and twisted the top of it: the sired straight into the room, and looked down to circo of light was gone. As he dropped, upon the neonsions flgave of the clit man at
40 Hin kuuks teghind the tails, the écor of fly the table. The face was that of Nathaniel Sino. room was put open, and other light. that
As a matter of faci, that apparition was easily of a chudle, fooded the pis enough explained. £furo, like everyone else who | -Who's there wriod the carne a rearch of that atrocious stane, suspected frightened voies of the dealer rulously on them with whom he was in league and caudlo above his head, and Ignis title suspected Jake Mealing most of all: Coming cautiously gound the room. The breiz that sight to the little shop in Moon Street, he the window struck upon him, and, he glancea
about'; and a frightful suspicion came to him at mares at Meading had gat fera unrlier than bud been suggested; had seened the diamond, much
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Mr. Jake Mealing lay still behind the counter --or rather walernisth it-while Mr. Pipe Mr. Jake Mealing was a nun of businessin by one, arri de la mining shutters one his own peculiar way, of course. Perhaps that, and fed them in place. Juke heard the final one put up, le bar dropped across varions things los had lertaken; added to it and serowed my from the inside; then the that, there was also a certain mount of ship! aor of tlu slop itself was closed and kink, found it closel, with not a sign of life anywhere i sharply at it. They've come!" Jake heart | ports out cition of the Far East, from Netipor
aetercuted somewhat for his uecos in the
parin absent him, which enabled him to get Tout of difficult places.
and a bar dropped across that, Mr. Maling ww in for the business invloed!
shop, and then went into the inner room,
This dealer extinguished this sigles in the On the evening on which he and Nathaniel
Jake Since had determined to try that desperate Meating, drawing his end up entionsly over venture at the shop of Mr. Tips, the dealer Mr. Jake Mealing might have been observed, the counter, saw a grotesque shadow of the old as early as nine o'clock, toitering about in the man, ang up over the wall and part of the sighbourhood of Muun Street. Moon Streetsiling from the light of the candle on the little table in the middle of the room, Jake saw
got away with it. He determined to get into the plaer, somehow or other; and sot about to reconnaitre.
It was too public in front; there were too many people still in the streets. Going down beside thy plaço, he found the stable yard which
his whisper.
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Ho went across to the window, and hull the in ouch cuse 33 it can be inade, but each Colony,
light up time again." he said, in a low voice.
Now, I wonder whunt--" He had turned to set the candle down on the table, when, in the set of doing so, he stopped saving the hintoru. Moving towards it cautionsly, and bouling near, his eyes russed the level of the edge of the table, and looked
being a neighisurhood in which loiterers of a sady aspect are common, Jake pased the that the rooms waspiad from four to unildako Menling hat protivney explored-but-straight down into the ghostly-dun-of-the-mm noticed. Once or tivics he strolled along on the opposite side of the street to that on which the shop of Mr. Pipe stoor), and glanced casually
ing with all sorts of stenger id furniture, and flush the sall figure of the dealer seca quite out of place in the midst of it
Still, Jake Mealing was no wearer to the at it, taking his bearings. One or twice, toman. He began to feel that i was hopu Ce unsuspicious dealer strolled to his door,
bess; mud that he had, in mbition, lost the bait and took a look up at the night sky. For by it nulardan tirsi. Mr. J'ipe was one of them he had dropped in his endeavour to enfch that gentlemen who never appeared to do any particular prize. More than that, he becan to business, and whose stock apparently remained feel horribly nervous; strange things seemed to undisturbed from one year's out to another. Air shout him in the darkness, and once a rat How they live (unless, some strange dunes, ran across his legs and almost made him cry out. they have a private fortrue, and have become Fortunately for the success of his enterprise, Mr. Pipe had left the door open which com- dealers for the fun of the thing) is a mystery,
nicated with the shop, Custral stroller paused to look at the sals cellaneous articles in Mr. Pip's windows; see all that went on within the rea
piciously.
-There's one or two I knows on in Luton who wouldn't mind pullin' the "onse down about
There was no word said, there was no time
there was no way there. The little alley which crouching below it. He started back, with a led to this yard sloped sharply away from the stream; Sime jumped up at the samo moment, street, so that although Nathaniel Sino actually and had bin by the throsné, stood nuleg the window of the room in which the alt runs, Jus was quito ten feet felow the sill for words. Slowly the younger and stronger of it. Obviously some other way must be found, | man bore the other down, looking, always The stable appeared to be disused: a paltarely into the swollen, livid Care Botore him. look was on the door, and a broken shutter They tell against the table, and it went over, But candle and ath; and so they fought on in the bung sideways frons vae of its windows,
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if came, at one end, closeup against the back darkurss Presently, while Fake lay there longstan wall of the dealer's shep. Straining his eyes shuddering, there to a great silenny; and then up through the darkness, Sine saw that the a sound as though one man serabbet up from room behind the shop had no other room above † his koesse so that Jake corld, it was apparently built ont from the houss itself. Whatever other living rooms were there, were above the shop; and the straight wall of them went up above the tint roof of that room
His course into which Sime, wanted to get. was clear; by dint of clinging to the opening across which the broken shutter had once hung, he gained the edge of the roof of the stable, and drow himself up upon it.
That one man began to move across the Hoor; his foot struck against something which rattled. It was the lantern. He picked it up, twisted the top, and drew a match along th bottom of it. Then, when the light was there. he closed the thing, and turned the ray across the room,
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In the first phase, Mr. Pipu went to an old seemed, in one or two cases. Jave an iden that they would buy something; reputed of ninet which stood at one side of the roc the ides, and want on again. Mr. Jake Mealing bountiful inlaid thing of great valus-and, watched every such stroller carefully anal suspening it took from it half a loaf of broad, some choose on a plate, and a bottle of heer. These ho set out on the little deal table in the centre of the room, and provooded to make his Ho was obviously restless tonight: is 'ead, if they guessed wol was inside them pre-for he is not sit down to the meal, but walked miss," mittered Mealing to hisself. "Thabont in the narrow space between the furniture thing is-'ow am I to git in, an 'ow au I to and nervously pulled off a pice of bread, ent Hud it. wen I am in p
Mr..Mealing had already be road to the aller piece of chans to accompung it, and hek of the premises, through a sort of stall/wallowed them quickly; pansing sometimes, in himself along, hand over mad, he got his feet him, ho took the lantern, and wont across the Haiphong
the very act of eating, to listen intently again.
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I was too risky. The only chance, so far us ho saw, was to get in at the frost, and that in the most inuneent way possible. If the worst catre
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Jake, looking out, saw him bond over some | thing huddied up across the doorway between Tas it happened that, when he slowd up the room and the shop; saw ha taru away. right, and, seizing the edge of the gutter just sime seemed irnsolato for a kontent; randes a above him, swung himself out against the wall movement ence, as it to go nearer to that quit of the root, his face was just on a level with gure; then stopped, and drew away. Pre- that neustained part of the window. Drawing sently, as if some sudden iden had occurral to
apon the sill of the window itself, and so rested room, and so oat into the passage and up the I'll be glad when the thing's gone," "Jake there, looking in. And, as his black clothes stairs. Probably he felt that the denler hat heal him unter "This is a bad neighbour-were covered by the darkness, only his ghantly left the diamond in his bedroom, or some such hood; and who knows who may not have seon white face could be sOOR.
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tha mun byằng -il kere? I'm getting old, and The dealer stirred and shook himself, then got to the worst, Jake hold ous tramp card whichfraid; my nerve isn't what it was. I'm afraid up; Mr. Sima, moving rapidly, ang his face get out of the place, that was certain, yat ho he could play at least, he hoped su. He was let to play it, if it could possibly be dotie in aux of it—ufraid of myself. I could havo stort I out of sight juto the darkness again. Jake had to press that quiet thing in the darkness to
heard something move just now; all the house | Mesling began to feel that things had been | do it. He waited and waited. moved once Johoro other way-bacanie it meant a loss to himself.
drawn altogether too tightly for bis liking; to or twice, and tried to think of some other way Palang Ten o'clock boomed out from some cured full of noises."
He came out into the shop once, gripping hand had all the trouble and the diffenty of to get out of the shop. Finally, bo strack a tower fer at hand. The night was very dark, and heavy with the oppression of a coming the knife with which he had been eating his getting into the place, and bad, mareover been light, and, trending warily, and avorting his storm; Jake Mealing, Toitering on the olhar si supper, and looking about him with starting compelled to lose personal property, in the face, stepped over the bedy of Pipe, and gained A deep feeling of the window. In his haste in getting up, he of the street, saw the dealer come to the door oz yes. Jake Mealing, flat on his face among attempt to get the diamond. the shop, for the last time, and look out at the shadows of the shop at the end of the resentment sprang up in his mind against kicked over the table with a drash; but he got night Presently he retired, and then came out counter, looked like some uncenth bale of goods Nathaniel Simo, andu demper feeling of triumph on the sash, swung himself out. und dropped. OrficmRS OF COAST AND BAYER STEANSA,
-- Nathaniel Simó, in the room over the shop. more slowly, hearing a shutter. It was evident augst many other unconth bales, and so that he had been in such a position that b that Mr. Pips trusted no vite, and did orory-passed unnoticed. The dealer sighed, it wont know where the stone was whilst, in all pro-head the trashs, and almost stopped broathing.
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Venturing ut last to creep down, he turned his The old unu stretched his arius sleepily, and lantern full on into the little room. Fancy only faney muttered the old man.
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Por shutters had been placed in position, be langerous. He strolled across the street, and into the shop; and so faced, the dealer, as that gentleman was coming and with another
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Well, what do you want upped Mr Pipe, fooking bhu up and down. Don't you know it's elesing time? I can't do any more business to night.”
If you could oblige a clap who's down to is uppers," said Mr. Meading, drawing wine. thing from his pocket, and looking at it fondly nait lay in the palta of his hand, Id be very grateful. Belonged to me pore murvor, this ere; wouldn't are parted wiv it, if it "adn't hiu- The voice of Jake Meling trailed off, and he drew his sleve norosa his
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The dealer, with another look at hine, went outside, bearing the shutter being careful, at the same time, to peor at Jake through the window as he did so. Wion he came back into the shop, ho held out a thin, sinewy hand for what Jako bud to offer.
"Let's look at it.“ he wid; mud Mr. Meal- ing trustingly put it in his hat.
disposed of. After that. I'll have done with this, I'll go abroad, anul spend some of it-only a little of it--but still enough to make me cam
fortable. I wish it was ail dong with.”
Ife was still so nervous that he actually went out. carrying the candle with him, into the ssage beside the shop which fod to the private door; Jako Mvaling heard his shuffling footsteps on the other sálu of the partition, quite near to where he lay concealed. This dealer came back, put the candle down, laughton, and seemed bettor
satisfied.
"After a little time, during which the old insp scuted himself at the table and finished his frugal eupper, a now thought seaned to strike him. He get up, took sono jingling keys out of his pocket, and went to a little safe let into about him, he finally unlocked this safe opened the door, and thrust his hand in. Even then, he looked about him fearfully, and listened intently. The heart of Mr. Jako Mealing boat so forecly that that gentleman almost exred it must be heard in the stillness.
the wall at one side of the room. Glancing all
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his face down near the candle, and puffed it out. His shuffling feet sounded eross the room, as he went cut into the little pussage at the side of the shop: Jake heard his feet going slowly up the stairs.
out through the window. Hult fuinting with fright and horror, he mounted the table, feunt over the half-opened window, nad peered down into this darkness.
Nothing was to be semi. Mr. Jako Mealing was half a mile away, seulding along through back stroots, as if for dear life.
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Now Mealing knew that, if ones the waiting man Sine ontsile saw that flm light was gone, he would know that the coast was clear. Scarcely waiting for the footsteps on the stairs to cease, Jule croptoni, and had a mutoh to the
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There was a shuffling, scraping noise outsido the window; the sharp click of the latch, and then the cautious movement of the window itself. So expert was Nathaniel Sines that, but for the fact that Jake was listering for the sound, he could not possibly have heard it. Then, against the shadows of the night outside. a dather shadow seemed to loom for a moment
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." I won't leave it hære,]" unitterol Papo. “I never thought of that—if anything is known, It was a smull dimuond pendant-of no that's where they'd look for it first of all. And very great ralne as compared with that they'd easily force a safe like that. I'll trick other diamond of which Jake was in search; thein; I'll put it where they'll never look for but it had dropped into Jako's hands, as it were | it,” -----part of the proceeds of a robbery in which Mr. He brought something out in his clenched Mealing had taken a prominent part. The land, and then locks the safe again. Coming in the room, and swearing softly to himself, as
dealer looked at the Ching, and then raised his
eyes to those of his visitor.
Your mother must have been better off than you are, if she owned this," he said.
* Jake could hear the other man moving about
he knocked against expected articles of furniture. Ones or twies ho stopped, dead, and
not even a breath seemed to come from him: the glimmer of a bullseye lantern threw a small then he again moved about cautionsly. At last
ciel of light here and there, in a ghostly
to the table. be unsrapped the little packet, and Jake Me lhig aw the diamond Bushing aid its dingy coverings. Then he saw the dealer cover up again, und, after glancing “I suppose yer don't believe, mo, ch?" asked about him for à manisnt or two, take down Jake, aggresively.
from the top of a big, old-fashioned cabinet To be plain with you-I don't. This a long, beaton-brass jar, with a lid to it. With fashion, on the various articles of furniture. thing has been snapped off the original neck. another glance about him, the old run palie It had a weird effect, because, of course, the lace; you can see the break. The proper off the lid, and dropped the stone inside, still thing for me to dì, young man, is to send for a wrapped up as it had been delivered to him. Mealing heard the hill thad it made, as it fell into the jac. The dealer put the cap on again, and, reaching to his full keight, bot the jav once there on the top of the cabinet.
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Mr. Mealing, still in pursuance of his plan. began to snivel, He had never been fu trouble before, he urged, and five shillings would send him away in a state of perfect happiness. Would the gentleman just go into the inner room for a minute, and take a look at it by a let ter light.
The light in the shop was certainly dima, and Mr. Pipo begun to feel that he was going to get some twenty pounds worth rather easily. So bo went off into that inner room, to have a look at it, and perhaps to make up his mind whether he should take the risk for so low a
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Then it was that Mr. Jake Mealing acted promptly. I suddenly thrust his foot against the door of the shop, closing it with a clatter and the next moment dropped down behind the little counter, and cropt underneath, among what seemed to be some old lumber of curtains or
They can turn the place upside down, and they won't lock thore," he muttered. "If they do cong, it is the safe first, and every drawor in the place afterwards. And I have heard the long before then."
man who held it could not be seun.
At lust the little circle of light fall on the brass fittings of the safe door; the man who held the lantern set it down on the centro table, so that the light still rested on this safe. Then, moving round slowly, the face of Sinne fell into the circle, as he put it near the iren door.
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For a moment or two, he worked softly at the landle and the lock; Jake, Bat on his chest. watched his every movement. Then Sime drow Chuckling to himself, and turning his eyes an instrument from his pocket, and wont is often towards tho bruss jar on the top of the work on the door, putting the bright steci cabinet, Mr. Piyu sül, down at the table, with | edgy into the crack besides the lock, and flinging | his eyes facing towards the shop, and poured his whole weight against the two hands he ont the remains of lús beer. And then it was held clenched rounil the tool. that Mr. Jake Mealing, watching intently from the darkened shop, lad a vision of an extra ordinary apparition behind the old man.
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