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I wish I knew something of their lingo, I'd try to make them understand that when we get on board we'll give them a good blow-out, and that in a week or two they'll not know themselves.
The shot that killed him left you a nervous wreck, so that you can't hear a tire blow-out without reënacting in your mind the scene of that murder. You'll talk now." "You think I will? Talk to you?" very low and quiet, eyes once more closed. "Why not? It's got to come; here in your own home, with me or I'll have to put you where you'll be forced to answer questions."
Then he wheeled savagely upon the prisoner, exclaiming: "I forgot, Black. You rascals cut the wires. We could have mended them at the nearer point, but the wires were cut, too, at the scene of the blow-out. Oh, but you have been a thorn in our sides!" From the crowd that still lingered outside came a cheer. Tom Reade sprang to the nearest door, throwing it open. "Listen!" he shouted.
It must be a 'blow-out'! Is that the trouble, Jo? Yes? Well, come, girls; we may as well step out." There was forced resignation in Mrs. Pitt's voice; she was trying not to mind the delay. For forty minutes she and the girls sat by the roadside and watched the chauffeur and the two boys at work on the tire. It seemed as though every part of this operation took longer than usual.
On the edge of Kootenai Canyon, feeling more like an aviator than like an automobilist, Claire had driven, and now, nearing Idaho, she had entered a national forest. She was delayed for hours, while she tried to change a casing, after a blow-out when the spare tire was deflated. She wished for Milt. She would never see him again. She was sorry. He hadn't meant
"There's no captain to tell; I say, we're leaving something for you, aren't we, you fellows? There'll be all the heads of the herrings and the greengage stones jolly blow-out for you."
"What kinda shape is your extras in?" he would presently inquire. "She's a tough one, from here on to the next stop. You got a hind tire here that ain't goin' to last yuh five miles up the road." He would kick the tire whose character he was blackening. "Better lay in a supply of blow-out patches, unless you're a mind to invest in a new casing."
He stopped, nearly breathless. "It can't be a fire. Say, boys! they're havin' a Blow-Out up in heaven." The company crowded out. The sky was full of a palpitant light. An Indian appeared from round the stockade; he was still staring up at the stone chimney. "Are we on fire?" "How-do." He handed Father Wills a piece of dirty paper. "Hah! Yes. All right. Andrew!" Andrew needed no more.
She laughed and chatted with him in a manner that promptly convinced me that propinquity so far as I was concerned had had a most depressing effect upon her, and that she revelled in the change of companions. I was so disturbed by the discovery that Britton had to caution me several times to handle the inner tubes less roughly or I would damage them and we might suffer a blow-out after all.
"Did you ever ask him to dinner before you were engaged, I mean?" pursued the inquisitor. The India-rubber Man laughed. "Well, not dinner exactly. But I went down to Osborne College once and stood him a blow-out at the tuck-shop." His companion nodded darkly in the direction of the King's Messenger. "Shouldn't wonder if Thorogood was feeling like that lad Joe.
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