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Updated: June 14, 2025
"You've gone back to gambling lately, Matt," said I to myself. "You've been on a bender, with your head afire. You must get out of this Textile business as soon as possible. But it's good sound sense to plunge on the coal stocks. In fact, your profits there would save you if by some mischance Textile should rise instead of fall. Acting on Roebuck's tip isn't gambling, it's insurance."
Every morning at a fixed hour he would call at a certain hotel, where he reported the doings of the organization to Bender and myself. One of the things I thus learned was that the union was hard up and constantly exacting loans from Gussie and several other members who had savings-bank accounts.
"Oh, nothing," said she; "only you dusted your clothes with your handkerchief after you fell, and now you've wiped your face with it, and it's all streaked up as if you'd been making mud pies, and your hat's a little out of shape, and " "You look as if you'd been on a bender," added the fellow who had induced me to come to the confounded affair.
It was an insult, and it nerved me to a great effort. I discarded for it was my serve the Hampstead Smash; I discarded the Peruvian Teaser. Instead, I served two Piccadilly Benders from the right-hand court and two Westminster Welts from the left-hand. The Piccadilly Bender is my own invention. It can only be served from the one court, and it must have a wind against it.
Now, if the men you have named are led to get on a bender or two these very persons will be led to change their tune, and will condemn it as a failure just as emphatically as they now endorse it as a blessing." "That's just it," interjected Bottlesby. "Why, I was talking with Old Gurney this morning, and the old fool at once mounted his usual hobby.
In the bitterness of the moment, he wondered if he, too, would finally go the way that Bender had. And then, as the butler swung the door back, he was recalled to the matter of Tom Brainard by the sight of a familiar figure that floated toward him as airily as had its astral self that afternoon. He kissed her and went to his study. Just before dinner was not a time to discuss such things.
The old man's clothes were even more ragged than when Hardy had seen him at Bender, his copper-riveted hat was further reinforced by a buckskin thong around the rim, and his knees were short-stirruped almost up to his elbows by the puny little boy's saddle that he rode, but his fiery eyes were as quick and piercing as ever.
"This feller is cookin' while Flapjack is on his bender, Happy," sez Jabez. The cook shack was built out o' pine logs at the bottom, an' fixed so the upper sides'd swing out like awnings in hot weather. We felt purty comfortable. The' was a square window at each end an' one on the side facin' the house; the stove was on the other side. We made little Barbie sit in the corner behind the stove.
At the last moment Martyn entered, dripping. "Don't swear," said Scott, lazily; "it's too late to change your carriage; and we'll divide the ice." "What are you doing here?" said the police-man. "I'm lent to the Madras Government, same as you. By Jove, it's a bender of a night! Are you taking any of your men down?" "A dozen. I suppose I shall have to superintend relief distributions.
What's happened?" then looking up she saw Billy Bender, who raised her in his arms, and insisted upon knowing what was the matter. Laying her head on his shoulder, she sobbed out, "She's gone, she's gone, and there's nobody left but Sally. Oh dear, oh dear!" "Gone! Who's gone?" asked Billy. "Jenny," was Mary's reply.
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