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With all the vividness of her impressions, a partisan for the moment of him and Dellarme, she sketched Feller's part with the automatic. As he listened, Lanstron's spirit was twenty again, with the fever that Feller's "let's set things going!" could start rollicking in his veins. What did the thousandth chance matter? Only a wool-gatherer would ever have had any faith in it. Victory for Gustave!
They're paid so that when a feller's conscience hurts him he can just lay all the sins of the whole world on the preachers." "They deserve 'em," sez the little man. "What does it mean to steal?" "Why, any fool knows what stealin' is," sez I. "It's takin' something that don't belong to you." "How can you tell what does belong to you," he sez, leanin' forward as if he was makin' a point.
She knew she had lied, but to be told so by this man was infuriating. She made no attempt to further disguise her feelings. "I said I was busy," she cried deliberately. "Surely that should be sufficient." But the man had no intention of accepting his dismissal. "It jest depends wot a feller's come around for," he said, no whit disconcerted.
When they had finished their discussion, he said: "It seems like I can always fight better when I know what the other feller's game is. I'm going to spy on that outfit." "We've had detectives at work for weeks," said the lawyer for the Scandinavians; "but they can't find out anything we don't know already."
"And he told me not to speak to Mr. Buffum about it." Jim breathed a sigh of relief, and saying "All right!" he leaped from the wagon. Then taking out a heavy blanket, he said: "Now, Harry, you jest stand by the old feller's head till I git back to ye. He's out o' the road, an' ye needn't stir if any body comes along."
"It would take a week, Doctor, to tell you what a rough-an'-tumble time I had on that 'are whaler. There's a feller's writ a book about v'yagin' afore the mast that'll give ye an idee on't; he had an eddication so't he could set it off, and I fell foul of his book down to Valparaiso more'n a year back, and I swear I wanted to shake hands with him.
"I saw him," admitted Janice. "Know him?" "Of course not. He doesn't belong in Poketown, I'm sure." "Mebbe he will," said Walky, his eyes twinkling with fun again. Janice looked at him, puzzled. "Ain't you heard?" he questioned. "'Rill Scattergood's resigned and the school committee is lookin' for a new teacher. That feller's got the bee in his bonnet, they told me at Middletown."
He beat a tattoo on the casing; no answer. "Gustave!" he called; no answer. Now he entered and touched Feller's shoulder. "Hello, Lanny!" exclaimed Feller, rising and setting a chair and breaking into a stream of talk. "That's the way they all have to do when they want to attract my attention. I heard your voice and Miss Galland's having an argument in the garden, I should say.
The tow-headed chap had suddenly leaped out of his chair like a restive wild cat. "Ain't that dad over yonder?" he asked. "I see a feller that seems to be built on the same lines of the photograft, but n-n-no," he finished musingly, "that feller's a Mexican." "Letter for you, Mr. Hill," said a bell boy, coming across the lobby from the clerk's desk.
I have had bad luck, lost my money, lost my friends, lost my conscience, lost everything, pretty near" and here he turned his watery eyes on his friend with a saw-toothed smile and shook his depleted abdomen, that had been worn off climbing many hills "I've lost everything, pretty near, but my vermiform appendix and my table of contents, and as like as not I'll find some feller's got them copyrighted."
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