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Updated: May 16, 2025
"He has buncoed us, for sure," he said with a smile, though the smile boded evil for John D. Curtis at their next meeting. "Did you notice him particularly when he registered?" demanded the detective, after a pause. "Yes. Came to-night by the Lusitania. Here is his signature." The three men gazed at the register, and Steingall produced a card, on which Curtis had written the name of the hotel.
You ought to have been there when he put on his specs and squinted at the five hundred or so barefooted citizens standing around." "Are you telling the truth, Billy?" asked the consul, weakly. "Am I? You ought to see the buncoed gentleman's daughter he brought along. Looks! She makes the brick-dust senoritas here look like tar-babies." "Go on," said Johnny, "if you can stop that asinine giggling.
"Let us," said he, "hear the chimes at midnight, or even after, if we get buncoed doing it. Who cares if we wind up in the police court! We've done the deed; we've made our bluff good with Halliday and his gang of highwaymen; and I feel like taking the limit off, if it lifts the roof! Al, hold your hand over my mouth or I shall yell!"
"They won't come near us," observed the well-dressed young man; "they are after the Wells-Fargo box and the registered mail. You won't do any good out there." But the other loudly protested. No; he was going out. He didn't propose to be buncoed without a fight. He wasn't any coward. "Well, you don't go, that's all," said his friend, angrily. "There's women and children in this car.
You can find out all about me from any of the neighbors; I haven't enough money with me, but I'll go to my room and get it. "'No ye don't; none o' that guff for me! You can't think how coarse he was. Then he walked deliberately over to the door and stood with his back against it. "The Bostonian now joined in. "'It looks as if you had been buncoed, my friend, he said.
In the lines of graft we've worked we took money from the people the Lord made to be buncoed sports and rounders and smart Alecks and street crowds, that always have a few dollars to throw away, and farmers that wouldn't ever be happy if the grafters didn't come around and play with 'em when they sold their crops. We never cared to fish for the kind of suckers that bite here. No, sir.
Dad felt for his watch, to see what time it was, and his watch was gone, and the waiter was waiting for the money and dad tried to explain that he had been buncoed, and the head waiter came and begun to act sassy, and then they called a policeman to stay by us till the money was produced, and everybody at the other tables laughed, and dad turned blue, and I thought he would have a fit.
After half an hour he roused himself to take the drink, and as he felt the liquor pass warmingly through his body, his features relaxed into a slow, deliberate, yet genuine grin. He was laughing at himself. "Buncoed, by gosh!" he muttered. Then the grin died away, and his face grew bleak and serious. But harder hit than this was his pride. He had been so easy.
From the first night I stood on a street corner with a gasoline torch, hawking rasin-seeders, up to last night when I got an eight-hundred-dollar raise in my salary, there ain't been a single moment in my life when I couldn't have sold you my boots; and if you'd buncoed my boots away from me I'd have sold you my stockings; and if you'd buncoed my stockings away from me I'd have rented you the privilege of jumping on my bare toes.
To you, the crowd are so many fools who may be buncoed out of their goods; while to me, some of their eyes, seen but for a moment, look into mine with infinite hunger and yearning, asking for friendship, comradeship, and love. And so, I call them my neighbours these hurrying throngs who pass me daily. Because they are my neighbours, they are my friends. Their rights are sacred.
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