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On a greater scale, it was almost nothing more than the first task that Nelsen had ever performed in space the jockying of a bubb from its blastoff drum, inflating it, rigging it, spinning it for centrifugal gravity, and fitting in its internal appointments. Nelsen looked at the fifty-odd stellene rings that they had broken out of their containers the others, still packed, were held in reserve.
How he got there he did not know; but he knew that he was a terrible duffer. How easily he could have brought confusion on the fifty-odd crows by tossing a few stones into the air! He went along the slope, very valiant in his resolve, but with shaking knees.
The door opened, and a cool-looking, slender man of fifty-odd, with a thin gray face, thin gray hair very smoothly brushed, and keen gray eyes, entered. He was introduced to Mr. Keith. After Mr. Creamer had stated the purpose of Keith's visit and had placed the drafts in Mr. Penwell's hands, the latter stated, as an interesting item just off the ticker, that he understood Wentworth was in trouble.
Of course, I can't identify them." "That is awkward. Wouldn't the banker of whom you bought them be able to give you the numbers?" "Yes, but I don't know where they were bought. I had at the time in my employ a clerk and book-keeper, a steady-going and methodical man of fifty-odd, who made the purchase, and no doubt has a list of the numbers of the bonds."
"Well, Miss, Cliff Island is just the purtiest place! And Uncle Pete must have had some title to it, for he's lived there all his life and he's old. Fifty-odd year he was there, I know. He was more than a squatter. "I reckon he was a bit of a miser. He had some money, and he didn't trust to banks. So he kept it hid on the island, of course.
They had lived within a mile of each other for fifty-odd years, old Judge Hampden and old Colonel Drayton; that is, all their lives, for they had been born on adjoining plantations within a month of each other.
More than three hundred miners, the majority of whom were armed with rifles from the company's arsenal, and the fifty-odd members of the Charleston lynching party swept into Toughnut Street, turned the corner, and rushed down the cross street toward the Oriental.
She returned his gaze frankly. "I don't see how you can be when you know what you do know." "I know how you feel now. But I know that people don't go on loving hopelessly all their lives. You're young. You've got" he figured quickly "you've got about fifty-odd years to live yet, and some of these days you'll be not forgetting," he changed, when he saw her quick movement.
I could not at first see the mass of wasps which were giving forth the major rhythm, as they were hidden deep in the nest, but the fifty-odd wasps in sight kept perfect time, or occasionally an individual skipped one or two beats, coming in regularly on every alternate or every third beat.
Eight of his chief followers shared his fate. Fifty-odd had various degrees of imprisonment. The work of Birdy Edwards was complete. And yet, as he had guessed, the game was not over yet. There was another hand to be played, and yet another and another. Ted Baldwin, for one, had escaped the scaffold; so had the Willabys; so had several others of the fiercest spirits of the gang.
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