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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I think it was when the engineer and the girl Robertson is going to marry began to talk about house furnishings in the Ardrigh's mess-room. They took it for granted Lister was my lover and he was horribly embarrassed. The thing really was humorous." "Folks have hinted I'm getting a back-number," Cartwright remarked. "To talk to a modern girl makes me feel I am out-of-date."
"Any man who begins carrying hot water out to his machine in a teakettle in September knows a lot about starting cars." "Well, get down to business," says Pelty. "You want to trade, you say. I don't want that mess. It's an old back-number with tin springs, glass gears and about as much compression as a bandbox. Give me five hundred dollars and throw your automobile in.
Newspaper offices are among the most conservative organisations in the world; but surely after twenty-five years some changes might be permitted to creep in; some original convention of expression or assembly might be developed. I drew up to this idea cautiously among a knot of fellow-craftsmen. 'You mean, said one straight-eyed youth, 'that we are a back-number copying back-numbers?
Honest, I was more leery on that point than about anything else; for you know how giddy they doll up at them joints, and while her taste in stained glass windows might be strictly up to date, when it comes to flossin' up for the Maison Maxixe well, no gray-and-white, back-number regalia would do there. If we wa'n't shut out, we'd be guyed to death.
I was turning away, whistling at being rid of the stuff, when he called me back to hand over a bundle of letters for La Chance. There were three for Marcia, and one in old Thompson's back-number copperplate for Dudley. There were no letters for Paulette Brown or myself, but perhaps neither of us had expected any. I know I hadn't.
Them back-number costumes of hers looked odd enough mixed in with all the harem effects and wired-neck ruffs that the others wore down to work. But when it come to doin' her hair Ruby was in a class by herself. No spit curls or French rolls for her!
"I'm not a back-number yet, but it's lucky the opposition don't know how hard it was for me to get up." Alvarez made a sign of understanding. "You must dismount as soon as possible. You are very staunch, my friend." "I've got to make good. If everything is fixed, we'll pull out." "Adios, señores," said Alvarez, taking off his hat. "Much depends on you."
For the man who lay in front of me, stone dead in water-soaked clothes that were frozen to his stark body, was Thompson, our old superintendent, who only six weeks ago had left the La Chance mine; whose letter to Dudley, with its careful, back-number copperplate address, lay in my pocket now. "It's Thompson!" was the only thing I could say. Thompson it was, if it seemed incredible.
"Oh, yes, quite sure. Look here!" and with a smile on his face he leaned forward, one rather fat finger pointing to the article he had just been reading. "I was wondering how you girls got hold of this old back-number paper, but I see it's one of several I saved because they had printed notices of my acting.
My engineer's clothes that I had taken, in lieu of part of my wages, from the slop-chest of The South Sea King, caused the officers of the marines to think I belonged to the ship's crew ... and the ship-officers must have thought I was in some way connected with the marines ... anyhow, I was not molested, and I led a life much to my liking ... an easy-going and loafing and tale-telling one ... mixing about and talking and listening ... and reading back-number magazines.
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