P. G. Wodehouse

“ Galer filled Jimmy with an odd sort of fury, a kind of hurt professional pride. The feeling that this espionage was a direct challenge enraged him. Behind this clumsy watcher he saw always the self-satisfied figure of Mr. McEachern. He seemed to hear him chuckling to himself.
“If it wasn't for Molly,” he said to himself, “I'd teach McEachern a lesson. I'm trying to hold myself in, and he sets these fool detectives onto me. I shouldn't mind if he'd chosen somebody who knew the rudiments of the game, but Galer! Galer!
“Well, Mr. Galer,” he said, aloud, “you aren't trying to escape, are you? ”

“ Den he says that he's a sleut', too, Does de Galer mug give him de glad eye? Not on your life. He says dat dat's de woist tale that's ever bin handed to him. De odder mug says, 'I'm Sir Tummas' vally,' he says. 'Aw, cut it out,' says Galer. 'Sure youse ain't Sir Tummas himself?' 'Show me to him,' says de foist guy, 'den you'll see.' 'Not on your life,' says Galer. 'What! Butt in among de swells what's enjoyin' themselves and spoil their evenin' by showin' dem a face like yours? To de woods! It's youse for de coal cellar, me man, and we'll see what youse has got to say afterward. ”

“ Dey begins to scrap good and hard in de dark. Dey couldn't see me, and I couldn't see dem, but I could hear dem bumpin' about an' sluggin' each odder, all right, all right. And by an' by one of dem puts de odder to de bad, so dat he goes down and takes de count; an' den I hears a click. And I know what dat is. One of de guys has put de irons on de odder guy. Den I hears him strike a light—I'd turned de switch what lights up de passage before I got into de room—and den he says, 'Ah,' he says, 'got youse, have I? ”