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Fulton used to be in business with him. Is yet, isn't he, Tod?" "Uhuh I think so." "Well, you may know there's fish around Lost Island. Billings is what I call a fish hog. He don't want anybody to know about the place wants it all for himself. Tod drifts onto the island and the man can't very well throw him off, half drowned as he is.
When she was made sensible that her crime in law was not only murder, but petty treason, she began to show great concern indeed, making very strict enquiries into the nature of the proof which was necessary to convict, and having possessed herself with a notion that it appeared she murdered him with her own hands, she was very angry that either Billings or Wood should, by their confession, acknowledge her guilty of the murder, and thereby subject her to that punishment which of all others she most feared, often repeating that it was hard they would not suffer her to be hanged with them!
It was not nice to remember that scene, and he gave his shoulders an impatient hitch and tried to think of something else. Mindful of his vow, he had bought a gun in Billings, but he had not yet learned to hit anything he aimed at; for firearms are hushed in roundup camps, except when dire necessity breeds a law of its own. Range cattle do not take kindly to the popping of pistols.
"Look smart there, men, and run away with those halliards," echoed the mate, repeating the captain's order anent the jib; and the Esmeralda, being now well under control of her helm, a picked hand came aft to take Captain Billings' place at the wheel, of which he had retained charge until now, while another man was put in the main chains with the lead, heaving it at intervals and chanting out the soundings in a monotonous sing-song drawl of "By the mark, four," and so on, until we reached six- fathom water, and then "The deep nine!"
The Coroner motioned the constables back. "All right," he said. "You seem to speak good English." "I come from England-from Oxford University," answered the Chinaman with dignity. "I have learned English for many years. I am the son of Duke Ki. I came to see my uncle, the brother of Duke Ki. He is making sacrifice before you take him." "Well, I'm blasted," said Jonas Billings from the crowd.
Ted fixed it so the wind'd work through a knot-hole in the dark, whenever he chose to pull a string over the fence back of the house, and make the awfullest groaning noise anybody ever did hear. It got on the nerves of Chief Billings and his men. They hunted that loft over and over, but of course the groans didn't come when they were up there.
"Hurrah!" cried Hen Billings; "there you go, candy and all. I hope you ain't hurt you," he said, good naturedly. "I'd rather lose my bet than have you hurt." "No," whined Bill, squirming round his body, and rubbing the back of his head, "not much. What are you grinning at, you monkey?
"The two of them haven't the strength of one healthy cat." Passing the men over to Billings with instructions to search them, he walked to the radio switch-board and examined it carefully. "They've got a regular set just the same," he said half-admiringly. "They could reach Encinitas with this one all right." Seating himself on a stool by the board he placed his hand on the key.
Billings had finished his protest, "that this man was on his way to Riverside to pay his quarterly instalment." Mr. Bascom was not present at the afternoon session. Mr. He regretted, he said, the obvious appeals to prejudice against a railroad corporation that was honestly trying to do its duty-yes, and more than its duty.
Then an Irish yell from Murty O'Toole woke the echoes, even as the bowler's hand flashed up above his head and the big stockman flung up his bat in an ecstasy of delight. Billings bit off a sharp word and left his crease; and Cunjee woke to the fact that the Mulgoan captain was caught and bowled. The match was theirs by one run! When Cunjee woke it became very thoroughly awake.
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