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You took good care of that. But she knew you were conspiring." "Just naturally knew it without overhearing," he derided. "And of course if I was in a plot I must have been Johnny-on-the-spot a good deal of the time. Hung round there a-plenty, I expect?" He had touched on the weak spot of Mrs. Wylie's testimony.
Johnny-on-the-spot, every time the ball came down." "For them five positions there's nothing better in sight," said Reddy. "I rather think so," acquiesced the coach. "There's only one weak spot in the back field, and that's at left half. Martin, for some reason, isn't playing his game. He's too slow in starting, and he doesn't tackle as hard and fast as he ought to.
Then, when you get ready to start off in your airship, you'll need more money. I'll be Johnny-on-the-spot all right, and have it ready for you. Now when do you think you can start?" He sat down at a bench, and began filling out a check. "Hold on!" cried Tom, amused in spite of himself. "Don't sign that check, Mr. Period. I'm not going." "Not going?" The man's face showed blank amazement.
So I guess old Tyke won't be Johnny-on-the-spot when you dig up them doubloons." "Don't worry about that," protested Drew. "The only important thing now is that you should get well. The treasure can wait. We'll postpone the trip until you get ready to go." "No you won't!" declared Tyke energetically. "You'll do nothing of the kind!
Another minute and But what's the use of worrying? Miss Beulah and I were Johnny-on-the-spot all right." Roy said nothing. He could not speak. His lips and cheeks were still bloodless. By the narrowest margin in the world he had escaped. Disgustedly the cattleman looked down at Meldrum, who was trying to curse and weep from pain at the same time. "Stung you up some, did I? Hm!
"Go on with you," said H. H.; "am I not here? Then there is Archbold he is always Johnny on the spot." Rockefeller smiled a sphinx-like smile, as near as he ever came to indulging in a laugh, and mosied out of the room. That night he went up to the Catskills. The next day a telegram came from Rockefeller addressed to "Johnny-on-the-Spot, Twenty-six Broadway."
He's Johnny-on-the-Spot whenever street car men are licked into shape. He's won lots of street car strikes for the bosses. Keeps an army of strike breakers an' ships them all over the country on special trains wherever they're needed. Oakland's never seen labor troubles like she's got and is goin' to get. All hell's goin' to break loose from the looks of it." "Watch out for yourself, then, Billy.
As long as the house has to burn anyway, he wants to be Johnny-on-the-spot." In this manner the time passed quickly, and before eleven o'clock they were nearing the town. A few minutes later they were riding through its streets, alertly on the lookout for any signs of impending trouble.
I was roped, tied, and branded, quicker than it takes me to tell you of it; and the odd part of the whole thing is that I enjoyed the experience, instead of resenting it. I think it was the second time I met up with her when I told her about it, and it is only fair to her, and to you, to admit that she said 'No, Johnny-on-the-spot.
Just to think what a pleasant surprise it would be for our butterfly collector, expecting that he was going in to gather in another lot of plunder, and then to hear a voice say to him: 'Hands up! you're our prisoners! Oh! wouldn't I like to be Johnny-on-the-spot when that happens.
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