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Updated: June 25, 2025
It was given out that Ben Price had taken up the trail of the elusive cracksman, and other people with burglar-proof safes felt more at ease. One afternoon Jimmy Valentine and his suit-case climbed out of the mail-hack in Elmore, a little town five miles off the railroad down in the black-jack country of Arkansas.
Morgan removed Tierney's cap and passed his hand around over the man's head until he found a slight lump, a little back of the right ear. "Knocked out with a black-jack!" he cried. "How could a man get that close to Tierney without being heard!" "The carpet in these halls and on the stairs is well padded," explained Marsh.
"I'll learn you manners, Joe, which is more than ever your father did. You're not drinkin' black-jack in a boozin' ken, but you are meetin' noble, slap-up Corinthians, and it's for you to behave as such." "I've always been reckoned a genelman-like sort of man," said Berks, thickly, "but if so be as I've said or done what I 'adn't ought to "
Their opportunity came when the Frenchman tried to trip Pete Ellinwood after big Jean had fallen and Code rushed into the fray with the ferocity of a wildcat. Some one raised the yell "Police," he was surrounded by his enemies, some one rapped him over the head with a black-jack, and the job was done.
'Come in, Kid, says they. 'It's all right, chaps, I says, 'I'm dying. Like that. 'It's all right, chaps, I'm dying. Same with this guy. See what I mean?" They formed a group about the fallen black-jack expert.
Then he came in, a black-jack clenched until the veins in his hand ridged out purple and taut as did those in his neck. A muscle was beating in his wooden cheek. He struck savagely. Garrison side-stepped, and his fist clacked under Crimmins' chin. Neither spoke. Again Crimmins came in. A great splatter of hoof-beats came from down the pike, sounding like the vomitings of a Gatling gun.
With a warning shout Louie leaped on the bed and grasped his arm. He felt himself pulled to his feet and hurled to the floor. He shut his eyes. With a sweep of his arm the "basher" crashed a black-jack against his skull. A head splitting flash of blinding light and then darkness and insensibility.
Palura knew the consequences of failing to meet the challenge. "Give 'im hell!" someone called. Palura turned and nodded, and a little yelping cheer went up, which ceased instantly. Terabon, observing details, saw that Palura's coat sagged on the near side in the shape of an automatic pistol. He saw, too, that the man's left sleeve sagged round and hard a slingshot or black-jack.
Putting a hand to his face he felt a bandage over the cut in his cheek, made by Louie's black-jack, and gauze, held in place by strips of adhesive tape, covering the laceration over his eyes made by Joe's brass knuckles. His right hand was in a stiff, straight bandage, the fingers held flat by splints. Brennan and the chief surgeon were standing at his bedside.
I t'ink it is from de Bible or from de helmanac sacre moi, I not know.... If I talk too much you give me dat black-jack." They gave him the black-jack. After he had drunk and wiped his mouth on his sleeve, he went on: "O my good-ma'm'selle, a leetle more to de wind. Ah, dat is right trejous! . . . Dat fight it go like two bulls on a vergee respe d'la compagnie.
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