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You run along and play a good way from the fire, or you'll get more than your fingers burnt. Take their hint and beat it while the beating's good." A glint of steel shone from the eyes of the criminologist as he lit another cigarette and took up his walking-stick. "Why, Cleary, this is what I call real sport.
The reporter had met a bootlegger earlier in the evening and had two or three drinks. He was mellow. "Oh, I'm wise," he said with a wink. "Chuck Ellis isn't anybody's fool. Beat it, Lothario, while the beating's good." The last sentence and the gesture that accompanied the words were humorous exaggerations of old-time melodrama. Lane took his advice without delay.
"I believe beating's the way to subdue most women," said Morse, lighting a cigarette. But as he said this, a slight smile passed over his face. He thought of Molly Merriweather in connection with the man's logic. "It's the way pa done to my stepmother," observed Maudlin presently.
And Jack found the phrase soothing whenever she uttered it, and plunged straightway into further revelations of his ebullient past. "I suppose," he ventured, when he could think of nothing more to tell and so came back to the starting point, "I ought to beat it outa here while the beating's good. I can't go back on account of mother. I could hotfoot it up to Canada, maybe...." "Don't you do it!"
What, don't you like to have anybody talk about you being a movie-queen? You sure are all of that. You've got a license to be proud of yourself. Or maybe you didn't know you was speaking to a Mexican soldier, or something like that." He made a move to rise. "Ex-cuse ME, if I've said something I hadn't ought. I'll beat it, while the beating's good." "No, you won't. You'll stay right where you are."
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