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Gotta pad under your shirt? You oughtta have one. Now put your right arm out ahead o'yuh, on the spile. Now you're all right." Eugene straightened up and the rough post balanced itself evenly but crushingly on his shoulder. It appeared to grind his muscles and his back and legs ached instantly. He started bravely forward straining to appear at ease but within fifty feet he was suffering agony.
"Red wine for you, darlin', like I brought you last Tuesday night and warmed you up so nice. The kind the doctor says is so grand for you, darlin' red wine without bubbles like he says you gotta have." "Red wine!" "Yeh, and black grapes like I brought you last Tuesday, and like he says you oughtta have black grapes and swell fruit that's good for you, darlin'." "A real blow-out, Vi-dee."
But there's a ring she left with me to sell, to pay fer what I gave her. It oughtta be worth somethin'. It looks real. I ain't sold it. I couldn't. I thought she might want it sometime " But Reyburn interrupted her excitedly. "Do you mean to say that Miss Stanhope is in the city and you know where she is?" "Now, don't get excited," warned Jane coolly.
"Gee! you oughtta be writing scare heads for the Evening Gazette!" Hattie Krakow ran her hand over her smooth salt-and-pepper hair and sold a marked-down flannelette petticoat. "I can't throw no scare into you so long as you got him on your mind. Oh, lud! There he starts now that quickstep dance again!"
A tear formed and zigzagged down her cheek. "Nothing, honest; only I I feel right happy." "That's just how you oughtta feel, little lady." "In three months, if Aw, ain't I the nut?" "It'll be a big Christmas, won't it, little missy, for both of us? A big Christmas for both of us; you as sound and round as a peach again, and me shooting up like a skyrocket on the pay-roll."
Billy looked at the ragged green bill with a slight lift of his shoulders. "Make it ten down and it's a go," he said at last with a take-it-or- leave-it air. "I hadn't oughtta let you off'n less'n half, such a shady job as this looks, but make it a ten an' I'll close with ya. If ya don't like it ask the station agent to help ya. I guess he wouldn't object. He's right here handy, too.
Silence a moment while Aunt Saxon pondered tearfully and sighfully, then: "Willie, is it the tooth ache?" "NoooOH!" roared Billy. A pause, then: "Billy, you've had a fall off that wheel and hurt yer head or cut yer knee, I know, I've always thought you'd do that, that old wheel! You oughtta have a new one. But I'll bring the arnica and bathe it. And we'll paint it with iodine where was it Willie?
A tear formed and zigzagged down her cheek. "Nothing, honest; only I I feel right happy." "That's just how you oughtta feel, little lady." "In three months, if aw, ain't I the nut?" "It'll be a big Christmas, won't it, little missy, for both of us? A big Christmas for both of us; you as sound and round as a peach again, and me shooting up like a skyrocket on the pay roll."
We used to have parties here and, say! they was nice girls in them days. Look at 'em now! Such riffraff! New ones comin' in all the time, new ones worse each time. Riffraff, that's what they are. She looked around to see if the Italian was about. “Now you take this Eyetalian girl next to you. Gee! she's some fright. Oughtta heard her this morning.
But it wouldn't do to leave these things here. They were the Shafton jewels. What anybody wanted of a lot of shiny little stones like that and a rope of tears! But then if they did they did, and they were theirs and they oughtta have 'em. This was the thing he had come to do. Get those jewels and papers back! Make up as far as he could for what he had done!
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