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So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
"We boys will just have to keep our eyes open and see what we can find out. There's more back of it than the idea to tantalize you because you beat Al Drummond in the freighting game. I wish I knew what the razor was for." "Of course, they weren't going to kill me, Hiram. No need for all that monkeywork, if that had been the case."
At the end of forty days reason returned to the king, the next forty days he passed in weeping bitterly over his sins, and in the interval that remained to complete the seven months he again lived the life of a beast. Hiram, the king of Tyre, was a contemporary of Nebuchadnezzar, and in many respects resembled him.
They warned Hiram against remaining in his paradise during a storm, but he replied, in a rage: "I, the God of the storm, am not afraid." But when the real thunder rolled and the lightning flashed all around his paradise, Hiram lost his boastful courage. He saw visions.
"I reckon." "Loose-mouthed people make more trouble in a community than downright mean ones," declared Hiram. "If I have any serious trouble with the Dickersons, like enough it will be because of the interference of the other neighbors." "But," said Henry, preparing to go on, "Pete wouldn't dare fire your stable now after sayin' he'd do it. He ain't quite so big a fool as all that."
Hiram had time only to grab his hat and throw himself forward along the mare's neck; the next instant it seemed as if a million tugging hands had hold of him and were trying to whirl him into the heavens and carry him, like a garment whipped from a clothesline, into mysterious distances.
Hiram was fully as doleful in regard to the possibilities of the law. "Once they get old Soup-bone behind bars on them trespass cases," he said, "he'll stay there, all right. They'll fix it somehow you needn't worry. I reckon they'll be arrestin' him any minute now. They've got cases enough marked down." "We'll see about that," snapped the Cap'n.
After we got you aboard, we lost a lot of time getting you ashore, and, up in the air again, when we started in the direction we had seen your airship go, we could find no trace of it." "I hope nothing his happened to Hiram," thought Dave, very anxiously. "If I get away," resumed Ridgely, "I want you to tell the people after me, if you can, that I'm all through with the smuggling business.
As for First Selectman Sproul, hot in his fight with Reeves for official supremacy, his league with Hiram, after an initial combat to try spurs, was instant and cordial as soon as he had understood a few things about the showman's character and purpose. "Birds of a feather!" gritted Reeves, in his confidences with his intimates.
Hiram scratched his nose and admitted that now the Cap'n had asked for friendly candor, he really didn't take much stock in witches. "There! I knew it!" cried the selectman, with unction and relief. "And now that you've had your joke and done with it, let's dump out old coffin-mug and his gander and turn round and go back about our business." But Hiram promptly whipped along.
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