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What I want understood is this" Dug Doble raised his voice for all to hear "that I'm boss of this outfit and won't stand for any rough stuff. If the boys, or any one of 'em, can't lose their money without bellyachin', they can get their time pronto." The two gamblers packed their race-horse, saddled, and rode away without a word to any of the range-riders.
Also, he issued their challenges for them. "Young Pronto," Bill announced, "from North Sydney, challenges the winner for fifty pounds side bet." The audience applauded, and applauded again as Sandel himself sprang through the ropes and sat down in his corner.
"I'm givin' you a hunch. He's damn queer fer a fellar who expects to break jail." "No matter. Let's get at it, pronto." Hurd got up, and laid his gun on the table. Then he turned over the bench, threw papers on the floor. "Thar's the key, an' heah's a rope. Hawg-tie me." With that he turned his back. Swiftly Pan bound him securely, and let him down upon the floor.
Scott paused at the sight of the girl's penitent face, and changed the subject. "As for your brother, we had a letter from him to-night saying that he and the bride had gone East. The directors sent for him, so they started pronto. I reckon Miss Emma's folks coaxed them to stay in Douglas a few days after the wedding we had expected them here before this." "But how did you know "
Lopez looked at the cook, and said casually to Pedro: "Not till after dinner," and puffed his cigarette. "Despues de la comida," said Pedro. "I will make for you!" cried the wretched cook, opening his eyes, and so relieved to be still alive that he could scarcely articulate. "Pronto," ordered Lopez.
"You're gonna leave us to roast," a man accused, in a voice that was half a scream. Sanders did not stop to answer him, but Shorty took the hysterical man in hand. "Git down by that log pronto or I'll bore a hole in you. Ain't you got sense enough to see he'll save us if there's a chance?" The man fell trembling to the ground. "Two men behind each log," ordered Shorty.
For, as Plautus says, her love is like rain, whose big drops not only penetrate the dress, but drench to the very marrow. Marcus Aurelius seems to have been about eighteen years of age when the correspondence begins, Fronto being some thirty years older. The systematic education of the young prince seems to have been finisht, and Pronto now acts more as his adviser than his tutor.
Sanborn applied his shrewd common sense to the problem as he listened to Kirby. "Looks to me like you're overlookin' a bet, son," he said. "What about this Jap fellow? Why did he light out so pronto if he ain't in this thing?" "He might 'a' gone because he's a foreigner an' guessed they'd throw it on him. They would, too, if they could." "Shucks!
"We oughta know it," Stoner said. "It saves paying a big corporation tax and lets you sell all the full-paid, nonassessable stock you want to issue, regardless of what the property is worth. Oh, we got wise to that, muy pronto! Why, these here Texas laws are the bunk! Them fellows at Austin, if they had their way, would make it impossible to promote a legitimate enterprise on a paying basis.
Wal, I say there'll be nothin'. All the same we want to move, pronto." "I'd like to hear what happened after we left," said Pan. "Somebody will tell us," returned Smith. They had reached the end of the arbor when Lucy's voice called after them: "Pan please wait." He turned to see her coming, twisting her apron in nervous hands. Pan's father and Blinky kept on toward the barn.
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