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'If you ast me straight, I should say it was a case of seven to one and
no takers,' said Huish. 'But that's my look-out, ducky, and I'm gyme,
that's wot I am: gyme all through.'
The captain looked at him. Huish sat there, preening his sinister
vanity, glorying in his precedency in evil; and the villainous courage
and readiness of the creature shone out of him like a candle from a
lantern. Dismay and a kind of respect seized hold on Davis in his own
despite. Until that moment, he had seen the clerk always hanging
back, always listless, uninterested, and openly grumbling at a word of
anything to do; and now, by the touch of an enchanter's wand, he beheld
him sitting girt and resolved, and his face radiant. He had raised the
devil, he thought; and asked who was to control him? and his spirits
quailed.
'Look as long as you like,' Huish was going on. 'You don't see any green
in my eye! I ain't afryde of Attwater, I ain't afryde of you, and I
ain't afryde of words. You want to kill people, that's wot YOU want; but
you want to do it in kid gloves, and it can't be done that w'y. Murder
ain't genteel, it ain't easy, it ain't safe, and it tykes a man to do
it. 'Ere's the man.'
'Huish!' began the captain with energy; and then stopped, and remained
staring at him with corrugated brows.
'Well, hout with it!' said Huish. ''Ave you anythink else to put up? Is
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