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"Ah, be nice, Claude!" says I. "Dance with the young lady. I would if I was you." And you can't guess how fussy a little remark like that gets Bobby boy. He almost swallows his cigarette from the jar he gets, being spoken to by a common cloakroom checker. First off he jumps up and stalks over to me real majestic and threatenin'. "You you How dare you?" he splutters out.
When all is bright within, we see no darkness without; and just at that moment our young knight had got into one of those green and golden glimpses of sunshine that here and there checker life's rather dark pathway, and with Leoline beside him would have thought the dreary shores of the Dead Sea itself a very paradise.
Beyond and alongside of the already striking camp, on the right of the road, the woods began again, leaving the open fields like an alternate square on some mammoth checker board. More than one soldier gazed admiringly at his strong figure as he cantered past, while the sentries, doubtless under instructions, permitted him to pass unchallenged through the lines.
He liked a pleasant ending or, at least, believed in mitigating tragedy by a checker of sunlight at the close. He had little use for the degenerate types of mankind: certainly none for degeneracy for its own sake, or because of a kind of scientific interest in its workings.
But underneath all this there is an earnest life, rich and beautiful with love and hope, or dark with hatred, and sorrow, and remorse. That fisherman by the riverside, or that woman at the stream below, with her wash-tub, who knows what lights and shadows checker their memories, or what present thoughts of theirs, born of heaven or hell, the future shall ripen into deeds of good or evil?
I think I have as much assurance as any man, but it took all I had and more, too, when I unwrapped a gold medal the thickness and shape of an enormous checker, and deciphered the following inscription: Presented to Hugo Dundonald Esquire for having With signal heroism, gallantry and presence of mind rescued On the night of June third, 1900 the life of Hermann Grossensteck from The dark and treacherous waters of the East River.
It's all ordered and cut out up to Ledyard." "Cut out? Then why don't they send it?" "They can't get the cars." "That'll do to tell. 'Can't get the cars! What sort of a railroad have they got up there?" "Max, here, can tell you about that, I guess," said Peterson. "It's the G.&M.," said the lumber checker. "That's enough for any one who's lived in Michigan. It ain't much good."
Who did she call up?" "Yes, I found out about that," he admitted, hanging up his coat and hat. "She called the public booths in the railroad station. There was somebody waiting there to answer her. And who do you suppose it was?" "I couldn't guess, Daddy." "Willie Sangreen. He is the young man who is checker at the pickle works, and who I told you was Olga's steady company.
"That is, if the wind holds in the same quarter. You'll have a chance to see what sort of a good fellow the Professor is tomorrow." "What! are we so near your headquarters?" "That's the checker," returned Tugg. "Just a short sail now." The inlet was never more than a mile wide; in places the rocks crowded in toward the channel until a strong man could have flung a stone from shore to shore.
He suffered through the agony of acceleration on the shuttle up to the orbital station, then was sick as acceleration stopped. But he was able to control himself enough to follow other crewmen down a hall of the station toward the Navaho. The big ships never touched a planet, always docking at the stations. A checker met the crew and reached for their badges.
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