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"So that's what the grabber business in the Colonial School yesterday was about...." He nodded. "It was their first try since the Evalee matter." "Why do you think they waited so long?" "Because they suspected you were being guarded. It's difficult to keep an adequate number of men around without arousing doubts in interested observers." Trigger glanced at the plasmoid.
Before the "grabber" could get the lay of things and get past it, the spooks would have gone through the trap, closed it, pulled up the ladder, and the "grabber" would have found the medium writhing and groaning and bleeding from the mouth. The bleeding was for effect, and was caused by sucking very hard on his teeth or gums.
In consequence, when I was challenged in this Bachelor-of-Arts fashion, it was a bit difficult to defend myself. I could not defend his frontal attack, but I had already declared in my mind a lack of confidence on Red Shirt. The old lady in the boarding house may be tight and a grabber, I do not doubt it, but she is a woman who tells no lie.
Claiming his right of the eldest, he would annex the hero in the very frontispiece; and for the rest of the story his career, if chequered at intervals, was sure of heroic episodes and a glorious close. Edward was indeed a hopeless grabber.
His first impulse was to answer with a bluntness equal to her own, but he checked it and said instead "One's first impressions are often lasting and you must admit, Dr. Harpe, that my first knowledge of you " "Was extremely unfavorable," she finished for him. "I know it." She laughed in embarrassment. "You thought, and still think, that I'm one of these medicine sharks a regular money grabber."
Claiming his right of the eldest, he would annex the hero in the very frontispiece; and for the rest of the story his career, if chequered at intervals, was sure of heroic episodes and a glorious close. Edward was indeed a hopeless grabber.
It just looks disgusting." "Disgusting!" Mantelish boomed, offended again. The Commissioner held up a hand. "Just a moment," he said. He'd picked up some signal Trigger hadn't noticed, for he went over to the wall now and touched something there. A release button apparently. The door to the room opened. Trigger's grabber came in. The door closed behind him.
"Well, I'm right sorry," said Corliss. "You're the queerest Hobo I ever saw." "That's what they all say," said Sundown, grinning. "I ain't no common hand-out grabber, not me! I learnt things from Bill. He had class!" "You sure Will never said anything about the Concho, or his brother, or Chance?" "Chance? Who's he?" "Wolf-dog that belonged to Will." "Gee Gosh!
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