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Updated: June 22, 2025
They arrived, however, without hindrance, at the end of an unfinished provincial street, and at the last of its houses, a five-story building, which the street seemed to have sent out to reconnoitre and ascertain if it could safely continue in that direction, isolated as it was between desolate tracts of land awaiting prospective buildings or filled with the materials of demolished structures, with blocks of stone, old blinds with no rooms to shelter, boards with hanging hinges, a vast boneyard of a whole demolished quarter.
"Do you know what we're after?" he queried hoarsely. "It's a scientific expedition," I replied. "That's what you and Captain Newmarch told me, and I have not questioned any one else." "But do you know the particular line we are after?" "No," I replied. "Well, we're after skulls. Leith has told the Professor about some ancient boneyard that he knows of, and he's dragging old Herndon down there."
It would lift them out of the boneyard of antiquity and put them fifty years ahead of their competitors. Why, I'll bet Granger's would give you a cool twenty thousand for that just as it stands. It would serve Norris right, too." Dale's face flushed with excitement. "Do you really think all that, Adam?
The caravan dashed into Rabbit with the customary velocity and the regulation rattle, but Rabbit did not trouble itself. "Blarst my eyes!" growled the Professor, when the camp was made; "even the dogs didn't bark! What sort of a boneyard is this we've struck?" As a matter of fact, Rabbit was a moribund township.
I just can't, that's all. 'Bill's Bughouse' is sort of skimmed milk to pea soup. Then there's 'Bill's Boneyard. That wouldn't offend any one but my foreman. 'Busy Bee' kind of hands me a credit I don't guess I'm entitled to. But there's others smack of the intelligence of badly raised hogs." Then he laughed.
I seen for days he was wantin' to be a angil, and I kep' a eye on 'im. Well, when he went to the boneyard, course it was my business, bein' City Marshal, to take possession of his property fur his heirs!" There was unseemly laughter behind the stove-pipe. "Among his deeds and traps," McGinty went on, unheeding, "there was fifteen hundred dollars in money.
They had come up on the Revere and they had already established themselves in his estimation as "skeletons"; that is, they had been picked pretty clean by "buzzards" in other climes before gravitating to his "boneyard." He considered himself a good judge of men, and he did not like the looks of this ill-favoured pair.
The working life of one of these men is not over ten years, B says. A decade of this intense heat, compared to which a breath of outdoor air in the close mill-yard, with the midsummer sun in the nineties, seems chilly, wears a man out "only fit for the boneyard then, sir," was the laconic estimate of an intelligent boss whom I questioned on the subject.
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