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I boxed with him as hard and swift as I was able ... but a flock of fists drove in over me ... and I was thrown prone across the form of the old man ... who stuttered with fright and impotent rage, swearing it was all a put-up game between us to torment him further, when I protested that I had not tried to do it. The next morning Spalton sent for me.

"I'm not only goin' to prove what I've said so far, but I'm goin' to prove that these robberies were a put-up job between you an' Carlisle, with somebody helping you," said Rathburn. "I've been in the mining game myself, Sautee, but in our country men spend their lives hunting metal to make some bunch of stockholders rich.

At a table in the middle a man was speaking in a harsh, loud voice one Simpson, a popular orator, who had held aloof from the meetings of the party. He was saying: "It's a put-up game between them, but the question is, who's to go on the ticket in " As Simpson's eyes met those of Roberts he stopped speaking. "Good morning, gentlemen. Please continue, Mr. Simpson; I hope I'm not interrupting you."

Without waiting for a reply he pointed to a rope and a slab of limestone on the pavement below, and waved his hand unmistakably toward the Mississippi. Miss Russell was of the opinion that Mr. Whipple had once been crossed in love. But we are to speak more particularly of a put-up job, although Stephen did not know this at the time.

A man can go wherever he wants to go on his own horse, I guess." That was the observation of Siwash, standing there rather glum and out of tune over Jim's charge that they had rung the Duke in on him to beat him out of his animal. "It was a put-up job! I'll split that feller like a hog!"

You could buy a mine on his word: if he said it was good you need not bother to take a journey to look at it, you knew it was right there, and weren't a put-up job. Once when we were working down on the Yuba we got to a place where there were a fault in the rock, and the lode had slipped right away from us.

The next instant the bench trembled under the force with which he had dropped back on it. "God!" he cried, hoarsely, "it's all a put-up job to feed me because you suspect I'm hungry! No, you don't even suspect you know I'm hungry!" She put her hand on his arm, and the gesture silenced him. "Be quiet," she said. "Suppose you are hungry? What of it? Is it a disgrace to be hungry?

We can imagine how our Lord would fix on him a penetrating gaze before which the shallow nature of the man would become apparent, as He asked whether this cross-examination was genuine, or whether Pilate was prompted to it; whether, as we should say, it was "a put-up affair" "Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others say it concerning Me?"

"I knew it was a put-up job between you an' Doane, an' I figured you'd maybe meet aroun' here where Doane would be sure to come to try an' take this woman with him." Rathburn eyed him calmly. There was something of a deadly calm in his very posture, as he stood just within the threshold. He looked past Eagen to Doane. Then he tossed the sack on the table.

As for the 'no' part of it, I ought to tell you that the warehouse stock has been knocked endways by another corporation which has a right of way that cuts ours and is going to steal our business. I think it's a put-up job to bear our stock so they can scoop it and consolidate; that's why I am holding on.