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"Yes, put that in," I replied quickly. Wilde detailed a signaller to accompany the driver of the cart, and, with Meddings and two of the servants walking behind, the journey commenced. A ten-minutes' hold-up occurred when Captain Denny of B Battery, a string of waggons behind him, shouted my name through the darkness.
There will certainly be the obstruction of official pedantry, the hold-up of this vested interest and that, the greedy desire of "private enterprise" to exploit the occasion upon rather more costly and less productive lines, the general distrust felt by ignorant and unimaginative people of a new way of doing things. The process after all may not get done in the obviously wise way.
Only, in Frances' case, she had been brought up among men who carried guns habitually, and the sound of a rifle shot did not startle her as it did the young man. "Look yere, Mr. Hold-up Man!" yelled Mack Hinkman, when his amazement let him speak. "Ain't you headed in the wrong way? We ain't comin' from town with a load. Why, man! we're only jest goin' to town.
"This hold-up fellow kind of slipped one over on you last night, Bolt." "Maybe so, and maybe not." "Got a clew, have you?" "Oh, yes yes." The sheriff looked straight at him. "I've a notion his initials are L. C." Billie felt himself flushing. "What makes you think that, Nick?" Bolt walked to a cupboard and unlocked it.
I should say it was! There was Mr. Bentley that was mild. And there never was a hold-up of a western express that could compare to the Consolidated Tractions. Some of these big fellows have the same kind of brain as the professional thieves. Well, they are professional thieves what's the use of mincing matters! They never try the same game twice. Mr.
Prosperity is th' bucko now. Barrin' a sthrike at th' stock-yards an' a hold-up here an' there, Prosperity has come leapin' in as if it had jumped fr'm a springboard.
But it would bust her all up if I had to do time fer a hold-up. You've got me where you want me, I guess. But I don't want in on no dirty money from old Lazy Y, nor no one else. You go it alone it's your kind of a job. "This here chloride, or whatever you call it, you sure it won't kill a man?" Purdy laughed: "Course it won't. It'll only put him to sleep till I've had a chanct to win out.
This jail was a Noah's ark of the city's crime there were murderers, "hold-up men" and burglars, embezzlers, counterfeiters and forgers, bigamists, "shoplifters," "confidence men," petty thieves and pickpockets, gamblers and procurers, brawlers, beggars, tramps and drunkards; they were black and white, old and young, Americans and natives of every nation under the sun.
It was the first time since the hold-up that he had been obliged to ride at night, but there was some valuable mail that had been delayed, and that must be put through. The pony express lad was on his trip toward Rainbow Ridge from Golden Crossing, and it was dark when he reached the point where the Richfield river branched off from the Ponto.
Guess this is the list, and a certain one sure, knowing the men. There's Pete Clancy, Nick Devereux, both hired men to Miss Seton. There's Kid Blaney, hired to Bryant himself. There's Stormy Longton, the gambler and murderer. Then there's another I believe to be Macaddo, the train hold-up, and the fellow they call "Holy" Dick.
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