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He placed her alongside the black for reasons which, had the compadre Franke been present, Felipe might have suggested with a crafty wink then hastily began to unhitch the team-mate. And it was just here that he proved his foresight. In the work of unhitching the mate, he should have encountered, and had expected, trouble from the black. But he did not.

He wanted Sam, therefore Sam was hidden well and at that moment playing a crafty game in the back of a cellar on the top of an old beer barrel, by the light of a wavering candle; well guarded by sentinels all along the difficult way. Michael could have no more found him under those circumstances than he could have hoped to find a needle in a haystack the size of the whole city of New York.

In your hand lies the means of removing him in secret, without the least suspicion." And slowly the crafty, insinuating criminal took her inert hand, and pressed the little bottle into its soft palm. "One drop placed upon the lemon which he takes in his tea will be sufficient," he whispered. "Only be extremely careful of it yourself, and return the bottle to me afterwards.

The strong, the crafty, the talkers each seek fulfillment of purpose from an equal or higher level than their fellows. But power and fulfillment may be reached at from a lower level, from the beggar's position, from the place of weakness.

"That won't quite do," replied Dick, shaking his head. "What brought you into these woods to-night? Did you expect that we'd invite you in to join us?" "Nope. Not quite," Hen replied, a crafty look in his eyes. "Then out with the truth, Hen Dutcher!" broke in Dave. "I don't have to tell you fellows, do I?" "Yes, if you want to stay here to-night!" blurted Tom Reade.

"Verily, Edward is besotted no less than ever by his wife's leech-like family. Thou knowest my appointment to the government of Ireland; Isabel, like myself, cannot endure the subordinate vassalage we must brook at the court, with the queen's cold looks and sour words. I see in this Elizabeth's crafty malice. Is this struggle between king's blood and queen's kith to go on forever?"

We furnish at his expense no holiday, nor suspend hell that a crafty Ixion may have rest from his wheel; nor give the common adversary, if he be a common adversary, reason to say, "I would have put in my word to oppose, but the eagerness of your allies in your social war was such that I could not break in upon you."

The old rajah has passed away, but the bungalow is still occupied by his son, a pensioner on the English Crown, and one of the most daring pirates in all that region successful enough to have achieved a fame for prowess, but too crafty ever to be caught.

At this they moved uneasily and glanced at one another with a crafty look of alarm. Their crooked fingers closed around the cups. "Are you a collector of taxes?" cried the first beggar. "Certainly not," I replied with heat, "but a payer of them!" "Come, come," said the beggar, with a wink at his comrades, "no insult intended! Only a prudent habit of ours in these days of mixed society.

We had a crafty plainsman for our captain, and long before daylight he and I rode out and waited for the first peep of day. Before the sun had risen, we sighted the wild herd within a mile of the place where darkness had settled over them the night previous. With a few parting instructions from our captain, I rode leisurely between them and the lake where they had watered the evening before.