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Let him Third Degree that little Jane from the garage. Keep them two men apart, too oh, that's all right, the fellow is a friend of mine on the 'Frisco police force. He won't butt in." Silence for a moment, then: "Oh, shucks, let 'em yowl! They've got more than kidnapping to worry about for the next twenty-five years." He hung up the receiver, sinking back on his pillows wan from the strain.
I was sure of it long before his face was distinguishable. He waved a hand at me with debonair insouciance. I waited for him without moving, my fingers on the butt of the revolver at my side. "So happy to meet you again, dear friend," he jeered as soon as he was within hail. "What are you doing here? How did you get out?" I demanded.
There were featureless sand hills and a wide stretch of desert. Sanderson started to get to his feet. Then he sat down again, stiffening slowly, his right hand slipping quickly to the butt of the pistol at his right hip. His chin went forward, his lips straightened, and his eyes gleamed with cold alertness. A horseman had appeared from somewhere in the vast space beyond the arroyo edge.
Who set you boys at work on this case?" he added, in a moment, at a whisper from his seat-mate. "Ned set me at work," Jimmie answered. "Yes, but who set him at work?" "I'll tell you," Jackson said, with a smile of satisfaction on his face, "the United States government set Ned at work. You'd better watch out how you butt up against the Secret Service men."
You'd never have thought that girl of mine cared anything for Le Gaire to hear her talk last night, yet, now the fellow is dead, she is crazy. Lying in there on the bed, crying, and won't say a word. Only thing she asked me when I came in was what he had been killed with. I said it looked as if he had been struck from behind with a pistol butt, and then she collapsed.
Each is willing to content himself with the weapons provided by nature; but the Southern barbarian prefers a natural product about three feet long, and the thickness of your wrist at the butt his conception of fair-play being qualified by a fixed resolution to prove himself the better counterfeit.
He looked at it closely, and again the unconscious cry of despair came in a half groan from his lips. For on the butt of the Colt was a stain of blood and a few gray hairs. Kedsty had been stunned by a blow from his own gun!
What could it mean? Was Nix an enemy, and was some one else of his gang attacking Anita? Certainly she was in trouble! Fearless Frank stepped back aghast, as he saw the inhuman chief of the Sioux the cruel, grim-faced warrior, Sitting Bull; shrunk back, and laid his hand upon the butt of a revolver. "Ha!" he articulated, "is that you, chief?
"This time, your Majesty, he had it that you had said he liked salad because it was his mother." The Emperor burst out laughing and said, "He is hopeless." It would seem as if Fate had chosen the Baron to be the butt of all the plaisanteries to-day. Later in the afternoon we drove in chars-a-bancs to St. Corneille, a lovely excursion through the woods.
When human thought comes, if I may so say, full butt against a stark, staring contradiction like that, it is no proof that either of the propositions is false. It is only like the sign-boards that the iceman puts upon the thin ice, 'dangerous! a warning that that is not a place for us to tread.
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