human
Well done, Dollops, well done! he rapped out with a soft laugh.
gpt
I thought it was you the minute my peepers rested upon your Cockney countenance, you little bundle of indefatigability! How did you do it? You caught my meaning, of course? Deuced keen of you, I must say!
human
Yus, he returned, with a vigorous nod.
gpt
I caught the signal orl right. '_Listen_,' you said, didn't you, Guv'nor? So I listens, and then I makes a little plan all on my lonesome. 'The Guv'-nor's up to summink,' says I ter me, 'an' I'll lay 'e wants me ter tyke a little 'and.' And so I ups and makes fer the road, and there I find the shuvver a-waitin' in this 'ere little snortin' machine.
human
He was there, then, was he?
gpt
Large as life and twice as nat'ril. 'Now, then, me lad,' I says ter me, 'git on the right side o' 'im, an' if yer can't git on the right side, git on the wrong side, s' long as yer gits 'im out of 'is seat.' But a couple er bob to a Scotsman is as big as a legacy, sir, an' I soon puts 'im strite wiv a message from 'is missis. 'Snoop along an' send a wire ter town,' says I, _Comin' later in the day, wait fer me_, an' address it ter the Commander-in-Chief of the Generil Post Office, Lunnon.' An' he looks at me an' swallows the gaff like as it were plumduff. I could 'er larfed, sir--strite I could! And I gives 'im the tip ter get a drink, and before I'd finished speakin', 'e'd gorn!
human
Good lad! good lad! Cleek's laugh was merry if low-pitched. The London address of the telegraph message tickled his sense of humour immensely.
gpt
And what did you do then?
human
Drove dahn the road a little just ter keep me 'and in, and then, when I 'eard you call out ter the lydy, and knew you wuz in danger, sir--why, I slipped in the clutch and come rocketing toward yer as farst as I could.
gpt
Oho! And you were nearer than the lady had arranged, then?
human
That little distance of a quarter of a mile might 'ave done for yer entire--an' I weren't tykin' no risks, he replied heavily.
gpt
An' if anyfink was to 'appen to _you_, sir--well, it's me fer the river 'fore you kin wink an eyelash. Dollops ain't a-stayin' 'ere wiv you on the uvver side of the sky, sir, an' don't you myke no mistake abaht _that_. Where you goes, I goes, too--if it's to 'eaven or 'ell. An' I'm thinkin' I knows the w'y the ayngels'll tyke _you_.
human
Well, they're not taking me yet, dear lad, so don't worry your ginger head about it! returned Cleek, with a little gulp of emotion for so staunch an adherent as this wisp of Cockneydom who stood before him.
gpt
But it's friends like you and women like Miss Lorne that keep a man straight and strong and true, and don't let him turn down the wrong path instead of the right. Come, now, there's still more work to be done. Mr. Narkom will be waiting, and I told him midnight under the big gate. Slip up the driveway and see if you can see him while I go round by Rhea's gate and see how the coast lies.