"Wot the blazes is the good of that ?" "It's a talisman," replied Paul, who, having come across the word in a book, had at once applied it to his treasure.
"Lor' lumme!" cried Barney Bill.

"And it was for that bit of stuff yer ran the risk of being flayed alive by yer loving parents ?" Paul was quick to detect a note of admiration underlying the superficial contemptuousness of the words.

"I'd ha' gone through fire and water for it," he declared theatrically.
"Lor' lumme!" said Barney Bill again.
"I got summat else," said Paul, taking from his pocket his little pack of Sunday-school cards.
Barney Bill examined them gravely.

"I think you'd better do away with these." "Why ?" "They establishes yer identity," said Barney Bill.
"What's that ?" Barney Bill explained.

Paul was running away from home.