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"Stirling's a reasonable fellow," Gallagher told Costell, not knowing
how much Peter was seeing of the big leader, "and he isn't dead set on
carrying his own schemes. We've never had so little talk of mutiny and
sulking as we have had this paring. Moriarty and Blunkers swear by him.
It's queer. They've always been on opposite sides till now."
When the weather became pleasant, Peter took up his "angle"' visitings
again, though not with quite the former regularity. Yet he rarely let a
week pass without having spent a couple of evenings there. The
spontaneous welcome accorded him was payment enough for the time, let
alone the pleasure and enjoyment he derived from the imps. There was
little that could raise Peter in their estimation, but they understood
very well that he had become a man of vast importance, as it seemed to
them. They had sharp little minds and ears, and had caught what the
"district" said and thought of Peter.
"Cheese it, the cop, Tim," cried an urchin one evening to another, who
was about to "play ball.


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