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Updated: June 9, 2025
"I think I know who did this job," said one of the detectives to the other. "Looks like the work of one of three men to me," returned the other sleuth. "Baldy Jackson, Slim Martin, or Hank the Bluffer." "You may be right, Joe, but I think it was Hank. If I've got the dope right, those other two fellows you mention are not near New York just now."
It was probably owing to this fortification of the natural strength of his constitution with so much exposure to the air, and the salt sea, that Mr Sparkler did not pine outwardly; but, whatever the cause, he was so far from having any prospect of moving his mistress by a languishing state of health, that he grew bluffer every day, and that peculiarity in his appearance of seeming rather a swelled boy than a young man, became developed to an extraordinary degree of ruddy puffiness.
"I've got him sized up now; he's the kind that strikes when the other chap isn't lul-looking." "I guess you're right. I called him a bluffer, too. It was first rate of you to step in and take my part." "I didn't do it on your account." "No?" "Not at all. I was itching for an excuse to get at him, and you provided one, that's all." Herbert was somewhat taken aback by this frank confession.
Even if he was, Dorsey and his crowd would be shy of the betting. This was one reason Old Heck had so played the conversation that Dorsey definitely threw down the challenge and which was so coldly accepted. The Vermejo cow-man would have to come in heavy on the betting or be placed in the role of a bluffer. By the time they reached the ranch Old Heck's good humor was restored.
"M. Montfort seems to get very agitated," said Frank, laughing. "But I hardly think there is any danger that he will do more than hammer on the partition," grunted Bruce. "He's kept away from us since he found he could not frighten anybody." "He's a bluffer," was Diamond's opinion. "He's a great fellow to play cards," said Merry. "But he seems to ply for something more than amusement."
When the Dutch build vessels of a larger size than this, they do so on very similar lines to English merchantmen, though usually somewhat broader and bluffer. Off the coast of Portugal we meet with many different kinds of craft, of which the trading schooners differ from almost any other kind of vessel. Broad in the beam, and short in the counter, some are rounded at the stem, some nearly square.
As we approached I could scarce credit the evidence of my own sight. The form of one of the vessels was perfect. She was of an antique build, and belonged to a period that I reckoned was full eighty years dead and gone. The other the half of her I should say showed a much bluffer bow, and had been a vessel of some burthen. But the wonder was the object on which they rested.
It was an extremely full, prosperous-looking store, and in the midst of it were to be seen, sitting on the counters, James and Robert Skyd, both looking bluffer and stronger than when we last met them, though scarcely a day older. James and Robert were the managing partners of this prosperous firm; Dobson and John Skyd were what the latter styled the hunting partners.
The boy was either a man out of a thousand or he was a first-class bluffer. He claimed to have cut Indian sign and to know exactly what was written there. At a single glance he had sized up Prince and knew him for a reliable side partner. Without any bluster he had served notice on Yankie that it would be dangerous to pick on him as the butt of his ill-temper.
It is very clear that its principal quality was the power of moving rapidly either with sails or oars. The French transferred the fregate of the Mediterranean to the northern shore of their country, and constructed it with bluffer bows and of a large size, to contend with the heavy seas of a northern region.
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