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"Well, then, I'm puzzled more than either of ye," returned Dick, "for my friend and mate is as true a man all straight an' aboveboard as ever I met with on sea or land." "That may be, boy, but there's some mystery about him, somehow." "Can ye explain what the mystery is, Jackson?" "Well, this is what Hunky Ben says.
Don't tell them at all. What's the use of harrowing their feelings all up now that the thing is past and done with?" "But Laurie he is all done up and they will be at a loss to account for it," objected Mr. Hazen. "Besides, the servants saw us come ashore and have probably already spread the story all over the place. And anyhow, I believe in being perfectly aboveboard.
"Well," said I, laughing, "the click of a pistol in one's ears is not much of an inducement to stay. I think he acted very wisely." "If all were square and aboveboard, he would have shouted for help." "And drawn more attention to himself! That would have been foolish in any case. No, no, José; the case is clear, I think.
They had struggled slowly yet stoically up towards respectability; they had fought for fair-dealing; they had entered a compact to stand by each other through that long and bitter effort to be tardily honest and autumnally aboveboard.
"Well, that was open and aboveboard," I continued, beginning to fear we had hastily misjudged Miss Sissie Montague. "Very open too much so, in fact; for I was obliged to note the fact that she wrote two letters regularly every day of her life 'to my two mashes, she explained one afternoon to a young man who was with her as she laid them on the table.
Anyway, she's not single, by a long shot." And he laughed. "But, Lord, that cuts no great figger. People here don't stand on ceremony in those matters. Everything's aboveboard. Hands on the table until time to draw then draw quick." His language was a little too bluff for me. "Her husband is in business, no doubt?" "Business?" He stared unblinking. "I see."
And if Stanley Mitchell's facetious friends begin any hilarity with me I'll transact negotiations with 'em sure! So I put it up to you, Petey square and aboveboard what are they tryin' to work on Stan now? "'To get his mine, you idjit! says Pete. 'Now be reasonable, says I. 'How'd they know we got any mine? 'Didn't you tote a sample out of that blisterin' old desert? says Pete.
I've seen some fun in me day, and hope to see some more before I die; but there are some things that I wouldn't do. If I live be cards it's all fair and aboveboard. I never play anything but games o' skill, and I reckon on me skill bringing me out on the right side, taking one night with another through the year. Again, at billiards I may not always play me best, but that's gineralship.
Tarifa took its name from Tarif-Ben-Malik, the most enterprising Robber Baron of his day, and thus the Lords of Tarifa were the progenitors of the Robber Barons of the Black Forest, New England and Pittsburgh. Tribute was the name the Moors gave their robbery, which was open and aboveboard.
We knew YOUR sentiments and what YOU think is your duty. We know what we consider OURS and so do you. But we're here to give you a chance, either as mayor, or, if you prefer it, as the oldest citizen here, to take a hand in our business to-night. We're not ashamed of what we're going to do, and we're willing to abide by it; so there's no reason why we shouldn't speak aboveboard of it to you.
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