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Each railroad desperately sought to wrench away traffic from the others by offering better inducements. In this cutthroat competition, a coterie of hawk-eyed young men in the oil business, led by John D. Rockefeller, saw their fertile chance. The drilling and the refining of oil, although in their comparative infancy, had already reached great proportions.
Texas Smith nodded, turned abruptly on the huge heels of his Mexican boots, stalked to where his horse was fastened, and began to saddle him. "My dear uncle, why didn't you hire the devil?" whispered Coronado as he stared after the cutthroat. "Get yourself ready, my nephew," was Garcia's reply. "I will see to the men and horses." In an hour the expedition was off at full gallop.
Eugene thought for a moment, and then replied: "So be it; you shall have your wish. Select one hundred men, of whom you shall be captain, and come to me, individually for your orders, reporting also to myself, and not to my officers. I will give you opportunity to distinguish yourself, young man; but remember that it is one thing to be a hero, and another to be a cutthroat.
You see, Earth's a terribly overcrowded planet and the only way to avoid cutthroat job competition is to make sure it's tough to get a job. It's rough on a starman trying to bull his way into the system." "You mean Steve may not have gotten a work card? In that case how will I be able to find him?" "It's harder," Hawkes said. "But there's also a registry of Free Status men men without cards.
I expected that we would then leave that cutthroat place, but M M , having left me for a minute, came back with three hundred sequins which had been given to her by her friend, whom she knew where to find.
Why, yo're nothin' but a cheap cutthroat!" The cold eyes of the other suddenly blazed. He made a quick motion toward his waistcoat with his thin hand. Kid Wolf laughed quietly. "Heah's yo' gun, sah," he said, handing the astonished Gentleman John a small, ugly derringer. "When I bumped into yo' in the doorway, I took the liberty to remove it. I nevah trust an hombre with eyes like yo's.
The horse, blinded by the light, did not see us until he was almost upon us. Then he jumped back with a snort. Woodford raised the lantern above his head and looked down. Bareheaded, in Roy's roundabout, I was a queer looking youngster. Jud, with old Christian's leather cap pulled on his head and a stone in his fist, might have been brother to any cutthroat.
At this the faithful old serving-man, who had heard many rumors of his banished young master's dealings with the craftsman's fair daughter, and who was devoted to Gotz, muttered the name of his protecting saint and looked about him as though some giant cutthroat were ready to rush out of the brush wood and fall upon the sleigh; nor, indeed, could I altogether refrain my wonder.
The fact that the figure quoted was below cost was nothing to him. A cutthroat war between two rival canneries might result in still lower quotations which would give him a greater profit. "Certainly not," he answered. "The figure quoted me was from the Golden Rule Cannery." Gregory felt his face growing hot under the influence of Mr. Eby's exasperating smile.
The man's brow darkened. "Know them?" said he. "I know them much too well. Perry is as ungodly a cutthroat as ever killed an emigrant in cold blood, and he's got in his gang nearly all those hounds that tried to hang me. Why do you ask, Major?" Sinclair handed him the despatches. "You are the only man on the train to whom I have shown them," said he.
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