The Grinder Papers — page 191: what you’re looking at

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186 THE GRINDER PAPERS. ~ nightcap and shawl, and Eveliny, with her hair in papers. Then enters Perkins with more on. Sez the doctor, sez he, ‘‘ Don’t be needlessly alarmed.” ‘“Thank ye,” sez Mr. Perkins. ‘‘But,” sez the doctor, ‘‘this lady is, I believe, betrothed to a young gentleman?” ‘‘Ves,” sez her ma. “Oh!” sez Eveliny. ‘‘//as anything happened to Jones?” Sez he, ‘‘I hope not, but there is a plot fur to kidnap him and send him to sea. One who calls himself Chalker is the ringleader. Probably, however, that is an alias.” ‘‘Oh!” screams Eveliny, ‘‘oh! oh!” ‘A moment,” sez the doctor. ‘‘You hev an aged parent under the ruff?” “Ves” sez Mr. P. ‘“He’s pious?” ‘‘Ves. sir.” ‘And has made a will?” ‘‘Well, yes—so it’s understood,” sez Mr. P. ‘‘There’s a plot agin him, tu,” sez Mr. Meggs. ‘¢Horrors!” sez Mr. Perkins. | ‘The assassin is to conceal himself in his room, wait until he sez his prayers, and then murder him and take his will,” sez Mr. Meggs. They all shrieked. ‘‘Trewth,” sez the doctor agin, ‘‘is stranger than fiction. comicbooks.com |