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The board votes unanimous to invest the paid-in capital in a suit of new jeans for the president, which was me. I got 'em on now. You see, I had to be dollied up to look the part so I could catch a come-on and get me grubstake." "I see," said Winthrop, his gray eyes twinkling. "And I was the come-on?" "Well," said Overland, scratching his head, "mebby you was, but you ain't no more.
Well, they were doing fine, getting used to the dry country and beginning to get over being homesick, when one night Murph went up there and played them the Arkansaw Traveler. "Well, of course that was the come-on Old Spud stopped his story and finally one lady bit. "'Yes, but how did you lose your fortune? she asks and Spud he shakes his head. "'By playing that tune, he says.
"She was a 'come-on." "That's her. She worked the betting ring daytimes and boosted in Bennie's place at night. Whenever she was caught she suicided. That's how she got her name." "Just what do you mean by that?" "Why, the usual stuff. A bottle of water with a poison label.
Balanced rakishly upon his cracker box Bill Lightfoot regarded his rival with a sneering smile, a retort trembling on his lips, but Creede only leaned forward and picked a smoking brand from the fire he was waiting for the "come-on." Now to ask the expected question at the end of such a story was to take a big chance.
"Don't you think now you're a bit of a come-on?" observed London Bill, swinging around to Storri from his survey of the distant heavens. "Why?" asked Storri, as cool as the other. "This is why," returned London Bill. "Here you butt in, a dead stranger, and make a proposition. Suppose I was to rap?" "I'd declare that you lied," replied Storri cheerfully, "and no one with sense would believe you.
It's grown from thirty thousand to two hundred thousand in twenty years; it has enough real estate subdivisions to accommodate eight million; it has invented the come-on house built by the real estate agents to show how building is looking up at Lonesomehurst; it has two thousand kinds of architecture all different; it has more good stuff and more fake stuff than any place on earth it's a wonder.
By and by the young man in the cafe, considerably annoyed at the sudden inattention of the waiter who acted as if he wasn't satisfied with his tip, strolled through the lobby and not seeing his dark-skinned friend, also disappeared. I wish to heaven I had had them shadowed. The young fellow wasn't a come-on at all. There was something afoot between these two, mark my words."
You are Murray Davenport, and I know it; that's pretty good material to start with. Your story has managed to convince me, little as I could hear of it; and I'm not exactly a 'come-on' as to fairy tales, at that " "It convinced you as I told it, and because of your peculiar sense of the traits and resources of Murray Davenport. But can you impart that sense to any one else?
He is then at some pains to understand his visitor's extravagant interest and delight over loquats, chiramoyas, alligator pears, tamarinds, guavas, the blooming of century plants, the fruits of chollas and the like. Baker pointed out some of these things to Bob. "Winter to summer in two jumps and a hop," said he. "The come-on stuff rings the bell in this respect, anyway.
And now, says Andy, 'I am going to test my theory "Once a farmer, always a come-on," in spite of the veneering and the orifices that a spurious civilization has brought to him. "'You'll fail, same as I did, says I. 'This one's shook off the shackles of the sheep-fold. He's entrenched behind the advantages of electricity, education, literature and intelligence. "'I'll try, said Andy.
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