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"Sure," replied Byrne shortly; "but we can't waste any time chinnin'. I heard that Miss Barbara was goin' to be swiped last night I heard that she had been. Now hurry and see if she is here." Anthony Harding turned and leaped up the narrow stairway to the second floor four steps at a time. He hadn't gone upstairs in that fashion in forty years.
At that time not one of them was either going to school or working. They stole from their parents, "swiped junk," pawned their clothes and shoes, did any desperate thing to "get the dope," as they called it. Of course they continually required more, and had spent as much as eight dollars a night for cocaine, which they used to "share and share alike."
I dunno but maybe I'll have somebody to help with the work, though," she added, after a pause during which she had swiped the dish-rag around the sides of the pan once or twice, and had opened the door and thrown the water out beyond the doorstep like the sloven she was. "I got a nephew that wants to come out. He's been in a bank, but he's quit and wants to git on to a ranch.
So you see, I am getting along fine." "You are doing Great Work for a Mere Child," said the Parent. "If you keep on, you may be U.S. Senator some day. But tell me, where did you get all of these Sign-Boards, Placards, Head-stones and other Articles of Vertu?" "I swiped those," replied the Collegian. "In order to be a real Varsity Devil, one must bring home a few Souvenirs every Night he goes out.
"He's a champion burglar from de odder side. He sure is. From Lunnon. Gee, he's de guy! Tell him about de bank you opened, an' de jools you swiped from de duchess, an' de what-d'ye-call-it blow-pipe." It seemed to Jimmy that Spike was showing a certain want of tact.
It would be like giving her a cent when we owed her a thousand. I got to do what I think is right you you made me a scout. I I got to be thankful to you if I can see straight. It's it's kind of like a like a trail like," he blundered on. "There can be trails in your mind, kind of. Once I chucked stones at Pee-wee and swiped Mary's ball.
What did you stick up for him for if you hated him? I bet old man Carmody swiped the bonds himself!" "Stop right there! Aren't you ashamed to speak so disrespectfully of Mr. Carmody? He was an old friend of father's." "I don't care if he was. I'm an old friend of Bill's, too. And Bill ain't a thief, no matter what he says!" "You go to bed this minute.
Try and occupy your mind. Collect butterflies." Spike shuffled in gloomy silence. "'Member dose jools youse swiped from de duchess?" he said, musingly. "The dear duchess!" murmured Jimmy. "Ah, me!" "An' de bank youse busted?" "Those were happy days, Spike." "Gee!" said the Bowery boy. And then, after a pause: "Dat was to de good," he said, wistfully. Jimmy arranged his tie at the mirror.
Instead of hitting anyone he swiped the cane along the ground, and then I heard the words 'This is how Vardon holds it. I wanted to make an appointment with one of the partners, but he told me that he wouldn't be in. However, I guess I'll meet him, because I'm going out to Dixie myself."
"Karl, his name is," she answered; " a Belgian refugee." "He looks like a Hun to me," remarked Glenn, bluntly. "He has his papers," said the girl. Glenn shrugged. "With his little pink eyes of a pig and his whitish hair and eyebrows well, maybe they make ’em like that in Belgium." "Papers," added Smith, "can be swiped." The girl shook her head: "He’s an invalid student from Ypres.
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