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"An' I reckon that new-comer you've ben chinning with could explain if HE had a mind to." Breck, now very uncomfortable, found all eyes centred on him. "Sam was chewing the rag with him, too, before he hit out," some one said. "Look here, Mr Breck," Shunk Wilson continued. "You've ben interruptin' proceedings, and you got to explain the meanin' of it. What was you chinnin' about?"
Oh Tom, I can't tell you how sorry I am about it all!" "Never mind. It's all right now, and all can be explained, I guess." "Of course it can." "Say, when you fellows get through chinnin' maybe you'll tell me what you're goin' to do with me?" snarled the tramp. "We surely will," said Tom. "We're going to tie you up, and then send for the police." "You are! Not if I know it!"
"That guy on shore is sure some punkins about this signal layout works jest like a Boy Scout might, sending a message across to another o' the troop standin' on top o' a high peak makes me think I'm back on the front, with Signal Corps men wigwaggin' for all that's out. Huh! There goes them twin lights, showin' the chinnin' must be over with both sides posted on the program.
"Sure," replied Byrne shortly; "but we can't waste any time chinnin'. I heard that Miss Barbara was goin' to be swiped last night I heard that she had been. Now hurry and see if she is here." Anthony Harding turned and leaped up the narrow stairway to the second floor four steps at a time. He hadn't gone upstairs in that fashion in forty years.
I wouldn't have believed Mallory was that sort. Nice young feller, too. Never slung any of his Greek at me, nor flashed his college pins. Seemed to kind of like chinnin' to me at lunch; so I let him. You know how you'll get to gassin' and tellin' each other the story of your life.
Would I be chinnin' here with you if I wa'n't?" He sighs, Piddie does, and struts away to freeze the soul of some new lady typist by looking over her shoulder. As an act of charity, they ought to let Piddie fire me about once a month. He'll die of grief if he don't get the chance sometime. And blamed if he don't come near gettin' his heart's desire before the day was over!
"'Well, says he, lookin' at his watch, 'it's now my time to eat, Mr. Scraggs, and I've took up so much of your valuable time chinnin' here, I don't feel I could do less than share my simple repast with you. I'm a stock-broker myself, he says, 'but none of these durned rich ones, so if you can stand for once to eat a meal not exceedin' five dollars in price, why, come along! says he.
That's what I can't seem to get at. Bemis says they're in with the rustlers, but even he seems to think there's something else in the wind besides that." Jessup snorted contemptuously. "Bemis huh! I'm through with him. He's a quitter. I was in chinnin' with him last night an' he's lost his nerve. Says he's through, an' is goin' to take his time the minute he's fit to back a horse.
"Doctor," he began over his mother's head, "what in thunder does all this here mean? Me 'n' Jackson was chinnin' comf't'bly, when sud'n you uns let loose on me two crazy old parties I never seed ner yeared on. Never had folks go on so 'bout me befo'. Beats even that Hob't Ma'tine," and he showed signs of rising irritation. "Albert, Albert!" almost shrieked Mrs.
Len and me had been puttin' in a lot of time together at his house, just chinnin' there wasn't much else to do but to keep warm. Well, along about five o'clock, we heard a rocket! The wind died away for a minute or so, and we dashed out to the beach to get the lay of that distress signal. Talk about big city fires!" he digressed. "A fire on land ain't what it is on sea.