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Updated: May 7, 2025
Texas has an iron-clad criminal libel law, and I suspect that I could pay a judgment for damages in any reasonable sum without spraining my credit or bankrupting the ICONOCLAST. If they have not the chilled-steel hardihood to deny that girls have been debauched at Baylor if by their resounding silence anent this matter they mean to give assent what then?
The manager showed him over the vaults and strong-rooms, explaining the various precautions taken to render the guile or force of man impotent: the strength of the chilled-steel walls, the casing of electricity-resisting concrete, the stupendous isolation of the whole inner fabric on metal pillars so that the watchman, while inside the building, could walk above, below, and all round the outer walls of what was really although it bore no actual relationship to the advertising device of the front a monstrous safe; and, finally, the arrangement which would enable the basement to be flooded with steam within three minutes of an alarm.
"I have come to see you," she began, awkwardly, "about a charity that I am interested in no, not exactly a charity, but " At the ominous word "charity" Mrs. Bates's eyes took on a still colder gleam. She faced poor Jane with the broad, even, pitiless glare of a chilled-steel mirror.
You know and you would admit it if you were honest with yourself that this girl is hard. She's got a chilled-steel soul. 'If you wanted to marry some one and there's no earthly reason why you should, for your life's perfectly full and happy with your work this is the last girl you ought to marry. You're a middle-aged man. You're set. You like life to jog along at a peaceful walk.
Get him started, and he was a small cyclone in action. But now he went at his man deliberately, with hard, straight, punishing blows. Dixon fought back wildly, desperately, but could not land. He could see nothing but that face with the chilled-steel eyes, but when he lashed out it was never there.
He would have liked to try conclusions with the cattleman to a fighting finish, but though he had held his own in many a rough-and-tumble fray, he lacked the unflawed nerve to face this man with the cold gray eye and the chilled-steel jaw. His fury broke in an impotent curse as he slouched away. "I don't understand yet," pursued Roy. "How did Miss Rutherford know that Meldrum was coming here?"
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