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This time she obediently shook her head. "Well, it's this way," he began haltingly. "They's a youngster come up from Frisco, Young Sandow they call 'm, an' the Pride of Telegraph Hill. He's the real goods of a heavyweight, an' he was to fight Montana Red Saturday night, only Montana Red, just in a little trainin' bout, snapped his forearm yesterday. The managers has kept it quiet.

"They's a shorter way than that Sis don't know it. It's one the bunch uses a lot if they catch us I can save my hide by makin' out I led you into a trap. You'll get yours, anyway. How much sand you got?" Bud leaned and spat into the darkness. "Not much. Maybe enough to get through this scary short-cut of yours." "You tell the truth when you say scary.

"They's no reason why we should and be run down like rabbits," said Joe Clune, with another of those terrible glances over his shoulder into the night. The others assented with so many growls. "All right," said Andrew, "we stick together. And, if we stick together, I run this camp." "You?" asked Larry la Roche. "Who picked you? Who 'lected you, son? Why, you unlucky "

Again the gun barked from Giersberg's hand, and again the ball dropped almost slowly out of sight. "It's a trick!" gasped Pop. "It's something damned queer." "They's a considerable pile of gents, that think the same way you do," admitted the deputy sheriff, dryly. Pop glared at him and gritted his teeth. "Lead the damn thing on ag'in," he said, and muttered the rest of his sentence to himself.

But they's got one maxim what you may 'ave 'eard I do not fine that maxim always come t'ue. 'Ave you evva yeah that maxim, 'A fool faw luck'? That don't always come t'ue. I 'ave discove'd that." "No," responded Richling, with a parting smile, "that doesn't always come true." Dr. Sevier denounced the world at large, and the American nation in particular, for two days.

Miss Theodosia did not have to do any talking. "Stefana says there's some smooches, but the worst ones come under your arms an' where they's puckers. The wrinkles Stefana hopes you'll excuse they'll air 'out, she expects. She was comin' over an' explain, herself, but she's gone to bed. Evangeline's gone, too, to keep the baby quiet.

"They's places in this country," Smith went on, for he liked to talk as well as the next one, once he got under way, "where you could put your pocketbook down at the fork of the road with your card on top of it and go back there next week and find it O. K. But they's other places where if you had your money inside of three safes they'd git at it somehow. This is one of that kind of places."

I'd sooner stick to the road, an' shoot a deer an' catch a trout once in a while, an' lie on my back in the shade, an' laugh with you an' have fun with you, an'... an' go swimmin'. An' I 'm a willin' worker, too. But they's all the difference in the world between a decent amount of work an' workin' your head off." Saxon was in full accord.

The Countess narrowed her eyes briefly, then became animated. "Say, listen here, friend! That's a little more delikit work than I been doin', but they's a party near here lemme see " She passed one of the plump white hands over her brow in the throes of recollection. "I think his name is Professor Balthasar.

"W'en yo're blind," he said, ramming his pipe full of black tobacco, "they's other things comes to ye. I know the run of this ship, blindfold, you might say. I c'ud go aloft in a pinch, or steer her. More grog?" But Rainey abstained after the first glass, though Lund went on lowering the bottle without apparent effect. "So yo're a bit of a sailor?" the giant asked presently. "An' a scholar.