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Although he had not taken the trouble to tell Bristow, he had already arranged with Golson to have the "extra man" on the job. He was taking no chances. He smiled when he thought of the sick man's eagerness to give him advice. It occurred to him that he should have communicated with George Withers. The funeral was over; had been set for yesterday.
Only two mornings before, Louise, for all the extra work he had had to do during Orlando's illness and without thought of bribery, had given him a beautiful gold ten-dollar-piece with a hole in it. If the piece had been minus the hole, Li Choo would have returned it to her, for he would have served her for nothing till the end of his days, had it been possible.
It has struck me that the sum was about what a man who had just cleaned up fifty thousand might regard as a sort of `extra' `for lagniappe' and that he might have thought it an appropriate amount to invest in a present some jewels perhaps to place in the hair of a pretty friend!" She sprang to her feet, furious, but he stood in front of her and was able to bar the way for a moment.
"I don't see why not if I fill up over there every time I land. I can stay up three hours longer, if I can glide a lot. Of course that high altitude takes more, in climbing up, and flying while you're up there, but the distance is short. I'll chance running outa gas. I don't want the extra weight, flying high as we have to. The motor's doing all she wants to do, just carrying us."
"Name it, my son," commanded Starkey. "Try the Octoneumenoi very extra special. Two of 'em, Dick. Come to beg to be a member, Spargo?" "I'll think about being a member of this ante-room of the infernal regions when you start a ventilating fan and provide members with a route-map of the way from Fleet Street," answered Spargo, taking his glass. "Phew! what an atmosphere!"
Now their wives want to know all about them so they can set up opposition in their homes to the many tea-houses which offer European food as an extra attraction. And depend upon it, if the women start to learn, they stick to it till there is nothing more to know on the subject.
'What made ye stan' me a slider, an' a champion tea, an' they nice sweeties, an' a best sate in a pictur hoose when ye wasna extra keen on ma comp'ny? 'Dear knows. She drew away from him so smartly that he turned his face towards her. 'Oh, crool! she murmured, and put her handkerchief to her eyes. 'Dinna dae that! he whispered, alarmed. 'What's up? 'Ye ye insulted me. 'Insulted ye!
I should get a tremendous wigging, no doubt, if he is discovered, and it was known that I had a hand in it; but I would not mind risking that, for the sake of the children. "But don't take a firelock, Repton. The sergeants would be sure to notice that there was an extra man. You had better join us, just as we set out. I will say a word or two to you, then do you follow on, in the dark.
If it was unusually large, he would say: "Plum duff and fried chicken for a Sunday dinner." He insisted that he could detect the rate of his pay in the food, but this was not true it was his kind of fun. "Mother" and I were fast friends. She became my banker, and when I wanted an extra dollar, I had to ask her for it and tell what I wanted it for, and all that.
Being able at will to force the contents of the detecter on to the flame, the effects of an explosion inside the lamp need not be feared. The use of the detecter will permit the further protection of the present tin shield lamp, by an extra thickness of gauze, if such addition is found advantageous in resisting an increased velocity. 7.
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