4/9 "Now, look 'ere, I'm a-goin' to make a ---- clean breast of it. This 'ere -- -- bloke's been a ringin' the changes on me; I'll show him up, an' -- -- well chance it. Slimy give me a quid afore he took his -- -- hook." The lad had clearly been drinking, but had not yet reached the incoherent stage. He spoke in great excitement, repeating constantly his determination to be revenged upon the tobacconist at all costs. It was with difficulty that Mr.Woodstock kept him to the point. |