United States or Poland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Here we are, ma cher. I knew we'd find a place where you could show me how kind you feel toward your fond Fayette." "So that's the way you cross the line?" criticised Dolores. "What a get-away for a fast pacer who has gone the pace!" "Now, Dodie, don't hang back. You know as well as I do " "Hush! Don't whisper it aloud!" cautioned the girl, pointing dramatically to Blake. "Betray no secrets.
The argument waxed long and loud, and in the end the Kid was vanquished, borne down by superior numbers. The popular verdict was that Old Man Curry ought to be ashamed of himself for owning and starting a confirmed bleeder like Jeremiah. On get-away day the speculative soul whose financial operations show a loss makes a determined effort to plunge a red-ink balance into a black one.
"Paper says he put it over a desert rat up near Barstow. Did you hear about it?" "Some," replied Overland sententiously. "And did you hear about his last get-away on one of the Moonstone Rancho ponies? Some class to that!" "I read somethin' about it," replied Overland. "Well, Red, if you won't tumble, all I got to say is, beat it.
He tried to speak out to her, but she sternly smothered his every effort. Her cheeks were on fire, she breathed fast, her eyes burned. "It looks," muttered de Spain, "as if I should have to climb Music Mountain to make a get-away." "There is no good place to hide anywhere above here," said Nan, regarding him intently. "Why look so hard at me, then?" he asked.
"Spit it out, son," said Old Man Curry. "I'd sort of like to know how crazy I am." "Fair enough!" said the Bald-faced Kid. "Elisha's a good horse a cracking good horse but to-morrow's the end of the meeting and you've gone and saved him up to slip him into the toughest race on the card on a day when all the burglars at the track will be levelling for the get-away money!
On that guest, during a visit of three days all the finest forms of hospitality were bestowed. Two weeks later, my friend's game-warden caught that guest, early on a Sunday morning, poaching on the trout-pond, and spoiled his carefully arranged get-away. In his book "Saddle and Camp in the Rockies," Mr.
When they were safe in the motor outside Zada was proud. "Some get-away, that?" she laughed. "Wonderful!" said Cheever. "I didn't know you had so much social skill." "You don't know me," she said. "I'm learning! You'll be proud of me yet." "I am now," he said. "You're the most beautiful thing in the world." "Oh, that's old stuff," she said. "Any cow can be glossy.
You remember that charge of stick-up and attempted murder of a Chicago guy that the police are trying to land Larry on? I put that over! I'm the party that was messed up in that. I was trying to put over a neat little job all on my own; but something went wrong just as I thought I was cleaning out the sucker, and I had to be rough with that Chicago guy in order to make a get-away from him.
"You needn't fire up quite so strong, Sam," he called down. "We won't start for a couple of hours yet." "Sufferin' Moses!" Davis poked his fiery thatch out from the engine room. "I might 'a' known better'n to sweat over firin' up. You generally manage to make about three false starts to one get-away." Benton laughed good-naturedly and turned away.
"We can make the trip during the night, if we can make the get-away," he told her. "We'll have to take a roundabout way at first, edging the valley along the foothills on this side until we're well past the ranch house, then cut across the shortest way and pick up the trail on the other side. We can take enough water in our milk tins to last us, especially since we're traveling in the cool."
Word Of The Day