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"Humph!" "And I am not related to Mr. Gordon," explained Nancy, wishing to be perfectly open and aboveboard. "But Mr. Gordon has always looked after me and and I didn't know but I might be of some use to him if he is alone and injured." "Ahem!" returned the Senator, grimly. "I do not know that I quite approve.
Bless you, there's nothing so bitter as a family quarrel. Still it is just as well that you have written about this affair, for we may as well have all fair and aboveboard." But Harold's letter to his partner was crossed by a letter from his partner to Harold.
Before Maynard had fairly outlined the case Nick keenly discerned that the robbery could not have been committed by any common criminals, and he at once decided not only that he would take the case, but also that it gave promise of something far more startling than then appeared aboveboard.
The old man quite willingly told of his share in the event. "We only wanted to see that everything was straight and aboveboard," he told the doctor. "And there wouldn't have been no fuss there at all if Sophy McGurn hadn't come out kinder crazy; the way them excitable women-folks does, sometimes." "What did she do?" asked Dr. Starr.
Besides, one has only to look at her to feel sure some terrible mistake or some terrible injustice is being done. Surely there is nothing eccentric, nothing erratic about her; now is there? You must have been studying her. Don't you yourself feel that there might have been something wrong about her commitment?" He shook his head. "Not a chancet. Everything's been positively regular and aboveboard.
Indignant at this revoke in the great game of immunity which should have been played aboveboard, the lawyer sprang forth from his family peace and studious retirement to fall or fulfil his mission in the irrepressible conflict. Lincoln delivered a speech at Springfield when the town was crammed by the spectators attending the State Fair.
"And with good reason on our side," retorted Huntington stoutly. "Perhaps. But I'll ask you to remember that everything I did was open and aboveboard. If any of your cattle strayed, if any of your fences were cut, I had nothing to do with it." "I believe you now, after what Thursby's told me." "Thank you. We make progress. But there are two things more. Who cut the fence of my winter pasture?"
"That's better thought than said. Perhaps you'd better get a schoolboy to keep his finger on it," continued the colonel, laconically. "Well, well; but I must find it and refresh your memory. Ah! here it is, and it's just as binding on me as it can be. There's no mistake about it-it's genuine South Carolina, perfectly aboveboard."
Well, I had my own periods of indisposition going over; and if it had been seasickness I should not hesitate a moment about coming right out and saying so. In these matters I believe in being absolutely frank and aboveboard. For the life of me I cannot understand why people will dissemble and lie about this thing of being seasick. To me their attitude is a source of constant wonderment.
I 'm going to believe him and in spite of what I find here, I 'm going to hold him innocent, and I 'm going to be fair and square and aboveboard about it all. The world can think what it pleases about him and about me. There 's nothing on my conscience and I know that if my father had not made the mistake of running away when he did, there would have been nothing on his." Harry shook his head.
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