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"Man, that's shootin'!" he exclaimed. "Have one on me! This geezer that you bumped off self defence, I s'pose?" "No. He was a bar-keep over on the Marias.
If there was a Yankee bar-keep in Hong-Kong, James Boyle would soon locate him. No blowzy barmaids for him to-day: an American bar-keep to whom he could tell his troubles and receive the proper meed of sympathy. The sunshine was brilliant, the air mild. The hotel on the Peak had the aspect of a fairy castle. The streets were full of colour.
When I gits to Jersey I takes one o' the little rocks an' goes into a place an' shows it to the bar-keep. He gives me a lot o' booze for it, an' I guess I gits considerable lit up, an' he also gives me some money to pay ferry fare, an' the next thing I knows I'm nabbed over in the hock-shop.
He had yellow-white hair that rested on his head like a window-mop, whitey blue eyes, and a pasty complexion. When he craned his neck in his anxiety to get my order right, I felt that his giraffe throat reached down to his waist-line and that all of it would come out of his collar if I didn't make up my mind at once "what it should be." "Who's he, Muffles?" I asked. "Dat's me new bar-keep.
Thet's wot I seed in you from the first. I sez, 'Thet 'ere boy ain't goin' to play you, Johnson! You can go your whole pile on him, when you can't trust even a bar-keep. Thet's wot I said. Eh?" This time Tommy prudently took no notice of the interrogation, and Johnson went on: "Ef I was to ask you another question, you wouldn't go to play me neither, would you, Tommy?" "No," said the boy.
"They had a ranch up here?" said Miss Deringham languidly. "No," said Alton. "It wasn't often they had ten dollars. She was a lady bar-keep down in Vancouver before she married Jimmy. He was a trail-chopper in this country. I don't know what he was in the old one." "And," said Miss Deringham, "Mrs. Jimmy resembles me?" She regretted it next moment when she saw Alton's face.
We'll see if we can drag another bet out of the bar-keep if the roan doesn't hurt him too bad. Look at him now!" Morgan was having a bad time getting his foot in the stirrup, for the roan reared and plunged. Finally two men held his head and the saloon-keeper swung into the saddle. There was a little silence.
Norris in a whisper, as he and Storri obeyed the hint tendered by the barman's thumb. "That bar-keep, Dan, used to be a strong-arm man himself; but since he's got this joint, he doesn't do any work, and has turned fall-guy for a fleet that operates along the Bowery."
"No, he 'ain't showed up," he said of Jim. "I don't know when he'll come." Webber reported to the boys. "Well, mebbe he's gone, after all," said Field. "He looked kind of funny 'round the eyes when he started," Bone informed them. "I hope he'll git his stuff," and they wandered down the street again. At eight o'clock the bar-keep returned once more to Miss Doc's. No Jim was there.
I guess there's no call for you to make any play." "Shut your face, Haines," responded Silent, in the same tone. "He's made a fool of me by showin' up my hoss, an' by God I'm goin' to give him a man-handlin' he'll never forgit." He whirled on Morgan. "How about it, bar-keep, is this the dead shot you was spillin' so many words about?"
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