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"Boss, she double-crossed me same as you! ... She promised faithful to stay in the house." "Promises nothin'!" roared Bostil. "She's in love with this wild-hoss wrangler! She met him last night!" "I couldn't help thet," retorted Holley. "An' I trusted the girl." Bostil tossed his hands. He struggled with his rage. He had no fear that Lucy would not soon be found.
England has a reputation for shrewd diplomacy. In the past she has used nations and peoples, played one against the other, betrayed, sacrificed, double-crossed in the march of her empire. Since the Cliveden week-end, however, with its resultant intrigues, England has, to all appearances, finally double-crossed herself.
How do you know what it is to smoulder inside, and feel your veins burn dry?" "It's something about that girl," the woman said, with quiet conviction. "She's double-crossed you." "Well, so she has but what of it? I'm thirsty. She's going to marry McNamara. I've been a fool." He ground his teeth and reached for the drink with which the boy had returned.
He recalled Vernon's swift, unaccountable championship of his cousin at the club an hour before. That was the answer, of course! The young cub had double-crossed him and placed himself in Willa's hands and incidentally landed his erstwhile tyrant in the same position. So be it. He would carry the game into the enemy's camp and then, if necessary, arbitrate.
Somebody had stepped in and walked off with this money in front of his nose in spite of the most elaborate precautions. Who had done this, and how? It had been done so cleverly that not a single clue was left for Podmore to work on once he had proved beyond question that Clayton had not double-crossed him.
"I seem to be double-crossed by my scenic effects, Blanchard," he stated in an aside to the magnate, who had stepped upon the platform because that elevation seemed safer than a position on the floor. "We must fix that! Furthermore, it's hot up here!" He pulled off his top-coat. He realized that the full display of his formal dress only aggravated the situation. In St.
Then the crew would kill us or we'd kill them, and whichever side won would be smeared by the Indians. Sort of a trap within a trap. Why he did it doesn't matter much. He double-crossed us, he double-crossed the crew, he double-crossed José. First thing he knows he'll find he's double-crossed himself." "Yeah," Tim grunted. "He better beat it before we git back!"
I've been set to ride herd on you daytimes, the other boys'll guard you nights. We been double-crossed once it won't happen again." "Then it amounts to this, does it: I'm your prisoner?" "More of a prized possession," offered Stover. "If you ain't got the loy'lty to stand by us, we got to make you! This diet is part of the programme.
"Oh, we've been double-crossed, all right," sneered Peter. "Lorelei's down and out now. She's no good any more. I guess you'll listen to me next time." His son turned upon him furiously, crying: "Shut up! Or I'll " He left his threat unfinished and rushed back to his room, muttering under his breath.
Taggart an' his dad is somewhere around here I was to meet them down the river a piece. Telza double-crossed me; tried to sneak over here an' hunt the idol himself. I found him he had the diagram. I tried to get it from him he stuck his toad-sticker in me, . . . the little copper-skinned devil. He " He hesitated and choked, raising himself as though to get a long breath.
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