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Updated: June 14, 2025
You'll think you have been trained on a peanut roaster. Who's the Britisher over there snooping around with Cowan?" "Name's McGee. But he's not a Limey; he's an American. I'm told he won a coupla medals in the R.F.C., and has sixteen Huns to his credit. He must be good though he doesn't wear the medals to prove it. Not a bit of swank." "What's he doing here?"
"'Tisn't my yacht. I don't mind going for a coupla hours' cruise. I'll even lend you that book so you'll have something to read on the revenue boat that takes you up to Sing-Sing." He laughed scornfully. "If that's advice you needn't bother. This is part of a plan arranged before I ever knew this yacht existed.
"I been aiming to put up that job on you for a long time, but I had a lot of deals on my hands. I was a sort of power-of-attorney for a coupla simps, and it kept me busy. If you think the two of us can do with three lungs, why, we'll grab a psalm-shouter and " "Billy! Billy!" Ponatah clung to him fiercely, hungrily. "Oh, Billy I'll make you well.
Opposition and ridicule had brought a little color into his face. "Why, hell, man! You you come around that ha-hairpin turn up there on two wheels! It's a miracle we wasn't " "Miracles is what happens once and lets it go at that. Say! Casey Ryan always saves wear on a coupla wheels, on that turn. I've made it on one; but the leaders wasn't runnin' right to-day. That nigh one's cast a shoe.
"I gotta stay home, 'safter. We're expectin' comp'ny; coupla aunts of mine. Dad wants me to stay home when they come." That went over all right. Anybody knew that there was no rational accounting for the vagaries of the adult mind, and no appeal from adult demands. The prospect of company at the Hartley home would keep Larry away, that afternoon. He showed his disappointment.
Don't believe in cheap literature of no sort.... Oh, of course it's all right to read a coupla detective stories or a nice, bright, clean love-story just to pass the time away. But me, I like real, classy, high-grade writers, with none of this slangy dialogue or vulgar stuff. 'Specially I like essays on strenuous, modern American life, about not being in a rut, but putting a punch in life.
So youse just take a sneak wid yerself, an' fix a nice little alibi fer us so's we won't be takin' any chances." Shluker frowned. "But what's the good of that?" he demurred. "French Pete and Marny Day 'll see you anyway." "Will dey!" scoffed the Pug. "Guess once more! A coupla handkerchiefs over our mugs is good enough fer dem, if youse holds yer end up.
"I s'pose that's somebody come aboard for a yard o' tape, or the seizings of a pair of shoes," he growled. "I'd ought to hauled in the gang-plank when we set down." He disappeared into the store and almost at once a shrill feminine voice greeted him as "Cap'n Abe." Vastly abused, Louise arose and softly followed to the store. "Give me coupla dozen clothespins and a big darnin' needle, Cap'n Abe.
In two days the drifts will be pilin' up on the divide and the trail on the other side, and in a coupla days more they'll be blockin' the cañon down this a way." Solange shrugged her shoulders. "We have food," she answered. "At any rate, I am going on. I have promised that I would meet Monsieur de Launay in this cañon. I cannot keep him waiting." Sucatash accepted her ultimatum without protest.
The only ray in the darkness which brooded on his indomitable soul was the thought that it might still be possible, by getting hold of Mr Pilkington before the notices appeared and shaking his head sadly and talking about the misleading hopes which young authors so often draw from an enthusiastic first-night reception and impressing upon him that first-night receptions do not deceive your expert who has been fifteen years in the show-business and mentioning gloomily that he had heard a coupla the critics roastin' the show to beat the band . . . by doing all these things, it might still be possible to depress Mr Pilkington's young enthusiasm and induce him to sell his share at a sacrifice price to a great-hearted friend who didn't think the thing would run a week but was willing to buy as a sporting speculation, because he thought Mr Pilkington a good kid and after all these shows that flop in New York sometimes have a chance on the road.
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