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If the police try to hang it on you, I'll swear it's mine. Listen! there's the elevator stoppin' at this floor. It's them. Before we let 'em in, I'd like to tell you I've never had a more interestin' evenin' in my whole life. What's more I never saw a man like you. You got me guessin'. You're either the goshdarndest fool livin' or else you're the slickest confidence man outside of captivity.
I've been sellin' a passel of runnin' hosses; an' as I rounds up a full peck of doubloons for the fourteen I disposes of, I'm feelin' too contentedly cunnin' to live. It's evenin' an' the moon is shinin' same as now. I jest pays six bits for my supper at the Galt House, an' lights a ten cent seegyar Oh!
"All that evenin' Eb an' Elspie an' I set by the cook stove, talkin', an' they seemed to be plenty to talk about, an' the air in the room was easy to get through with what you hed to say it was that kind of an evenin'. Eb was pretty quiet, though, excep' when he piped up to agree.
We smuggled the cask ashore last evenin', an' hid it in the woods this side o' Mount Edgcumbe. This mornin' we re-shipped it as you see. We allowed your Reverence would draw the line at that, though we hadn' the pleasure o' knowin' you at the time." "Yes," agreed the Parson, as Mr. Jope paused, "I fear it could not be done without scandal." "That's just how Bill put it.
And then again "Indeed I will, Mr. Williams. I'm a bit stupidlike this evenin' ... readin' too much.... May I stay and help you, Sir? I'm pretty quick on the typewriter, Miss Warren may have told you ... Sir ... and I ain't I mean I am not half bad with me shorthand.... You know I mean, she would know I'd joined them evenin' classes..."
I shall be home to-morrow night, ready to jine in at prayers." "Very well that will do, Bacchus," said Mr. Weston, who felt anxious to enjoy the society of his friend. "Good evenin to you all," said Bacchus, retreating with many bows. We will see how Bacchus kept his word, and for the present leave Mr.
He began coming to my place of a Sunday evenin', d'ye see, gentlemen? he'd walk across t' valley up there to Whitcliffe and stop an hour or two, enjoyin' hisself. Well, now, as you're no doubt well aweer, Mr. Eldrick, he were a reight hand at talkin', were yon Parrawhite he'd t' gift o' t' gab reight enough, and talked well an' all.
"'James' is my bronco's name; an' the evenin', followin' the vision of that Tramperos gray mare I makes onusual shore 'that James stays with me. Not that gray mares impresses James him bein' a boss an' bosses havin' religious convictions different from mules or is doo to prove temptations to him; but he might conceal other plans an' get strayed prosecootin' of 'em to a finish.
"Evenin'," replied the man. "Shirt? Well.... Shirt? Don't think I've ever seen you before. D'you live around this a-way, young man?" "No, I'm just going through to Chattanooga." "Mary," called the man, "bring that light." A woman in the back room mumbled in response. Tom dreaded the light.
"Good evenin'!" "Good evenin'," responded 'Bias in a tone none too hospitable. "You don't mind my havin' a word with you?" "Not if you'll make it short." "I've just come from Philp. He's been tellin' you about the Saltypool, it seems." "Well?" "She was uninsured." "And on top o' that, the fools overloaded her." "And 'tis a serious thing for Rogers."
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