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"It's a cinch," returned Lane, with sudden heat. "Pard, you don't know my mother. If she has picked out Swann for Margie all I've got to say is good night!" "Even if we prove Swann " "No matter what we prove," interrupted Blair. "No matter what, so long as he's out of jail. My mother is money mad.
"That's why," he soberly concluded, "I think we'll have our hands full if we do locate that stuff. It's a big chunk of money, and a little thing like killing a man or two won't trouble them. We'll be watched every minute of the time that we prowl around those painted rocks; that's a cinch. And when we've pulled the chestnut out of the fire they'll gobble it if there's the ghost of a chance."
Whatever was in the wind hedn't pleased him none. An' I calkilated thet young Isbel wasn't a sight good fer Greaves' sore eyes, anyway. But he paid no more attention to Isbel. Acted jest as if he hedn't heerd Isbel say he wanted a cinch strap. "I stayed inside the store then. Thar was a lot of fellars I'd seen, an' some I knowed. Couple of card games goin', an' drinkin', of course.
Grace laughed so merrily that, for the moment, she forgot that she was supposed to be in a fainting condition. Getting up rather unsteadily, she offered her hand to the cowboy, who, in his embarrassment, instantly dropped his bravado and half held out a limp paw for Grace to shake. "Them's our sentiments. We double cinch what Bud jest articulated, Lady," called a cowboy voice. "Thank you, Bud.
Annie Squires meantime had hastened back to discuss these matters with her patient in the hospital room. It only added more to the nervous strain that already tormented Mary Gage. "Annie, I'm scared!" she whispered. "Oh! if I could only take care of myself. Tell me, Annie I'll get well, won't I?" "Sure thing, Kid it's a cinch." "Where is he?" Mary demanded after some hesitation. "Who? Him?"
I adjust saddle and blanket carefully from both sides, pulling the blanket well up under the horn of the saddle and making sure that it sets comfortably. One should be considerate of the feelings of a dumb beast placed at one's mercy. Then I reach for the cinch, pass it twice through the rings, and delicately draw it up the merest trifle. Dandy Jim shudders and moans pathetically.
Rose never was a dressmaker, that's a cinch." Even Violet seemed a little shaken, and Jimmy was just beginning to congratulate himself on the skill with which he had modified what Block had told him about the costumes, when Violet began on him again. "All right!" she said. "Where are we? You know quite a lot of people in that show, don't you?" This was a rhetorical question.
"Thought they'd put it over easy," he growled behind set teeth, one clenched, gloved hand thumping the saddle-horn. "Saw the notice in the papers, of course, and decided it would be a cinch to rob a dead man. Well, there's a surprise coming to somebody that'll make mine look like thirty cents." His lips relaxed in a grim smile, which presently merged into an expression of puzzled wonder.
"Resembles the wound made by what reporters always refer to as 'some blunt instrument. The scalp is split but the flesh around the wound is swollen as from a blow. You have a nice lump on your head, Farrel." "Aches terribly," Don Mike murmured. "I had dismounted to tighten my cinch; going down hill the saddle had slid up on my horse's withers. I was tucking in the latigo.
"How did you get the job," Saxon asked, as they cast about, determining their camp-site. "Wait till we get fixed an' I'll tell you all about it. It was a dream, a cinch." Not until the bed was spread, the fire built, and a pot of beans boiling did Billy throw down the last armful of wood and begin. "In the first place, Benson's no old-fashioned geezer.
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