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As he made no response, Pinkey continued while he tightened the cinch: "If you could make a dude ranch out o' this and worry him enough, he'd give you about any price you asked, to quit." "I'd ask plenty," Wallie replied, grimly, "but it's no use to talk."
"'It's shore what you calls a mighty indurated play, says Jack, shakin' his head, 'to go shootin' some he'pless gent you've took; but, as I states, it's a cinch it'll be a heap fatiguin' keepin' cases on this yere Mexican till we meets up with a quorum of the committee. Still it's our dooty, an' of course we don't double-deal, nor put back kyards on what's our plain dooty.
They had moved slowly back toward the others, and as Wayland came to meet them Norcross said, with dry humor: "I admire your lady of the cinch hand. She seems to be a person of singular good nature and most uncommon shrewd " Wayland, interrupting, caught at his father's hand and wrung it frenziedly. "I'm glad " "Here! Here!" A look of pain covered the father's face.
"You are planning to combine and control the manufacture of cotton " "Yes." "But how about your raw material? The steel trust owns its iron mines." "Of course mines could be monopolized and hold the trust up; but our raw material is perfectly safe farms growing smaller, farms isolated, and we fixing the price. It's a cinch." "Are you sure?" Taylor surveyed him with a narrowed look. "Certain."
It took less than five minutes for the deputy sheriff to mount his men; he himself had the pick of the corral, a dusty roan, and, as he drew the cinch taut, he turned to find Charles Merchant at his side. "Bill," said the young fellow, "what sort of a man is this Lanning?" "He's been a covered card, partner," said Bill Dozier. "He's been a covered card that seemed pretty good.
Another thicker and softer rope was knotted so that it could not slip about the now sweating neck, and fashioned into a hackamore or halter about the animal's nose. Then the riata was loosed. Working deftly, silently, gently ever wary of those dangerous hoofs Phil next placed blanket and saddle on the trembling black and drew the cinch tight.
Naturally, your husband wasn't cognizant of this move, for the simple reason that there was no way of reaching him and his interests were thoroughly protected, anyway. The stock was listed on Change. A good bit was disposed of privately. We now have a large fund in the treasury. It's a cinch. We've got the property, and it's rich enough to pay dividends on a million.
It was just a Little Fuzzy, and that was the best he could do. That sort of nomenclature was the best anybody could do on a Class-III planet. On a Class-IV planet, say Loki, or Shesha, or Thor, naming animals was a cinch.
But you was figurin' on pluggin' me." He walked close to the man and stuck his face close to the other, his lips in a straight line. He knew Colton to be one of the most conscienceless "killers" in the section of the country near Tombstone. "Who was you lookin' for, then?" demanded Sanderson. "Not you that's a cinch!" grinned the other, fidgeting nervously under Sanderson's gaze.
"Pete said Skinny got one," replied the intent Buck. "Th' son-of-a-gun, he never said nothin' about it, an' me a fillin' his ornery paws with smokin'." Hopalong was indignant. "Bet yu ten we don't git 'em afore dark," he announced. "Got yu. Go yu ten more I gits another," promptly responded Buck. "That's a shore cinch. Make her twenty." "She is."
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