This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...the buttons on his jacket nervously. "I ain't got any friends in London," he mumbled. "Look here, Tim, whether I take you on depends upon you speaking the truth." "It is the truth, miss, I'm a telling you, s'elp me. I do know one or two chaps as live in London, but I don't call 'em friends." "They've given you money, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...the buttons on his jacket nervously. "I ain't got any friends in London," he mumbled. "Look here, Tim, whether I take you on depends upon you speaking the truth." "It is the truth, miss, I'm a telling you, s'elp me. I do know one or two chaps as live in London, but I don't call 'em friends." "They've given you money, haven't they?" "Just a bob or two." "What for?" "Only for talking a bit," "About Peter Gumley's horses?" "They was allays asking questions an' a bothering me." "You needn't have answered. You could have told them to go to Jericho. Why did you give away your master's secrets? It wasn't playing the game" "I know it warn't. Anyhow, I didn't tell 'em much." "You oughtn't to have told anything. What was your grudge against Mr Gumley?" Tim did not answer for a few seconds. Then he burst out: "He wouldn't let me have a chance with Belphegor. I told him as the horse was the best two-year-old going, but he wouldn't trust me on him. He put Jack Parsons up once and Jack was throwed like a shuttlecock and broke his leg, and Jack's the best rider in the stables. For all that, Jack rode him at the A.P. Spring Meeting an" nigh pulled it off. I love that horse, miss. We're like two pals, an' I wanted him at the top of the tree. When I see as Peter was dead set against him I s'pose I did have a drop now and again, an' it was then that Barney Moss got at me. You can't drink for nothing nowadays. P'raps Peter didn't tell you as he give me the sack about two months ago and took me on again?" "No, he didn't. How was that?" "It was this way. I'd been a lifting the right arm too much--was a bit boozed, you know--an' he ...
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