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"Between man and man." He stepped close to Hal, his face blazing with exaltation. "I must speak now or forever hold my peace." "Speak fast, then." "It's your last chance, this epidemic spread. Your last chance to save the 'Clarion' and yourself." "That will do, Velt " "No, no! Listen to me. I didn't say a word when you kept Milly's suicide out of print."
I 'eard the thump of it, and I kind o' velt somethin' vistle past me, but ven I looked there vas the Eytalian a feelin' of 'is muscles in the middle o' the stage, and as to Bob, there vern't no sign' of 'im at all no more'n if 'e'd never been." His audience was riveted by the old prize-fighter's story. "Well," cried a dozen voices, "what then, Buckhorse: 'ad 'e swallowed 'im, or what?"
No one could see them without pitying him, and no man in his senses would have accepted their owner's word on any point at all. A man looks as he did when the fire of a burning velt has circled him and there is no way out. There was fear behind them, and the look of restless search for safety that is nowhere.
"Uncle Jed an' me carried the trash down an' it filled the ash barrel clean up to the top." "Well, I hope an' pray you didn't throw away my insurance book. I was aimin' to clean up, myself, to-morrow. What on earth's the matter with Rosy Velt?" Rosy, who had been banished to the kitchen for misbehavior, had been conducting a series of delicate experiments, with disastrous results.
Well, we comes up here on our way to the Koaka Velt on some kind of scientific trip er other I dunno, and it didn't matter as long as I was paid and the two prospectors they brings in gold, and tin, and copper, and all sorts of muck, and the perfesser was busy 'blow-piping' and 'classifying' and what not, and every day he gets more 'centrick.
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