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I wrote letters to the persons who had lost. I told them that I had taken the money as my father's agent without his knowledge. I said I had deceived him as well as them. And then, so that I might not perjure myself on the witness-stand or have the truth gimleted out of me by lawyers, I put on rags and hid myself among the thousands who trudge the highways and ride the trusses of freight-cars.
"Harlan, put yore paws up in sight or I'll drill you clean! Now climb over an' get in line quick!" Johnny moaned and opened his eyes. "Did did I get him?" "No; but he gimleted you, all right," Hopalong replied. "You'll come 'round if you keep quiet." He arose, his face hard with the desire to kill. "I'm coming back for you, Harlan, after I get yore friend! An' all the rest of you pups, too!"
He rang the bell and waited, his right hand on the pocket of his overcoat. The door opened cautiously a few inches and a pair of close-set eyes in a wrinkled face gimleted Clay. "Whadya want?" "The old man sent me with a message," answered the Arizonan promptly. "Spill it." "Are you alone?" "You know it." "Got everything ready for the girl?" "Say, who the hell are youse?" "One of Slim's friends.
"Harlan, put yore paws up in sight or I'll drill you clean! Now climb over an' get in line quick!" Johnny moaned and opened his eyes. "Did did I get him?" "No; but he gimleted you, all right," Hopalong replied. "You'll come 'round if you keep quiet." He arose, his face hard with the desire to kill. "I'm coming back for you, Harlan, after I get yore friend! An' all th' rest of you pups, too!"
He gimleted all over the space back of the plate before he finally made out the ball coming to earth many feet in front of him. He made a desperate lunge for it and caught it. And Reddy's groan of relief could be heard clear from the pitcher's box.
They said there never wouldn't be nothing here excep' the railroad. There's them that can't see yit, and he gimleted me with a fierce eye. 'An' all the while, fortunes is made piles is made right under our noses. 'Have you made your pile? I asked. He smiled as the artist smiles all true prospectors have that lofty smile 'Me? No.
You know how unimportant your cuts are in the fall when you know that you can skip classes ten times that year without getting called up on the green carpet and gimleted by the Faculty. Ten cuts seem an awful lot when you begin. You throw 'em away for anything. You cut class to go downtown and buy a cigarette. You cut class to see a dog fight.
He was the very letter of urbanity, but beneath the velvet of his voice I felt the steel. It lay, too, in the glitter of the cold eyes that gimleted mine sharply. Be sure I gave him back his smile and his insolent aplomb. "Surely you are mistaken, Captain Bothwell. I recollect finding nothing that belongs to you." "We'll waive that point.
"Must of slipped his hands out of the cuffs, looks like," the guard suggested. "He got me to give him a bigger size complained they chafed his wrists." "Some trick that, if he has got kid hands." The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant. "Did you do this, Brad? God help you if you did." A light step sounded on the threshold. Pauline came into the room.
Vaniman could not understand what he was saying, but the sharp questions that were interjected by the manager of the affair the queries that gimleted for additional information suggested the line of confession that Britt was giving forth. "Yes in the bank! Where in the bank? . . . I heard that, but where? . . . In the basement, hey?
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