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Updated: June 14, 2025
In the semi-darkness of the trees the old corncob pipe sparked rapidly, sweeter to the halfbreed than nectar, for Mira had held the match that lit it. Night after night he was content to sit like that, her small hand cuddled in his; but in the evening hours there were so many things to do toward the fulfilment of their dream. "Jest a coupla weeks more, Mira," he murmured.
You've got something to talk to me about?" "That's the idea," said Fitzgerald. "A coupla questions." Brink jerked a thumb toward a door. "Come in the other office. Chairs there, and we can sit down. What's the trouble? A complaint of some kind?" He ushered Fitzgerald in before him. The detective found himself scowling. He'd have felt better with a different kind of man to ask questions of.
I'll run 'er around a coupla times b'fore I start out and that's all I will do." Naturally the garage man was somewhat perturbed at this nonchalant manner of getting acquainted with a Ford. He knew the road from Lund to Pinnacle. He had driven it himself, with a conscious sigh of relief when he had safely negotiated the last hair-pin curve; and Bill was counted a good driver.
"Why, I reckon nothin' a-tall. Only that this mo'nin' I put a match to about a coupla hundred thousand dollars belongin' to Crawford, Sanders, and Hart." Eagerly Steelman clutched his arm. "You did it, then?" "Didn't I say I'd do it?" snapped Doble irritably. "D'ya ever know me rue back on a bargain?" "Never." "Wha's more, you never will. I fired the chaparral above Bear Cañon. The wind was right.
But Casey merely grunted when I spoke to him about it. "Maybe it is. A coupla hundred ounces, say. What's that, even with silver at a dollar an ounce? It ain't good enough for Casey, and what I'm wastin' my time for, wearing the heels off'n my shoes prospectin' Starvation, is somethin' I can't tell yuh." He looked at me with his pale-blue, unwinking stare for a minute.
It sounds callous, I know, but, frankly, your unhappy condition fails to distress me. Well, how much do you offer?" "All we got. A coupla thousand." "A temptation, truly." Mallow addressed his companion irritably. "Have a little sense. He don't need money."
It would have been more dramatic, of course, if she had been engaged to the great man herself, but still the mere fact that she had a girl friend in that astounding position gave her a sort of halo. "No, really!" he said. "I say, by Jove, really! Fancy that!" "Yes, she's engaged to him all right. Been engaged close on a coupla months now." "I say! That's frightfully interesting!
S'pose me and the Kid lure him to some lonely spot some good yellin'-place and set upon him with a coupla pick-handles. We'll make him confess or we'll maim and meller him till he backs out through his bootlegs. What d'you say?" Pierce shook his head. "Something must be done, but I doubt if that's it. It's tough to be disgraced, to have a thing like this hanging over you.
"Not a chance, unless you want him to do so; unless you're afraid we'll make a failure of the business." "We?" Gus smiled quizzically. "You won't fail. Folks around town are talkin' about how quick you're takin' hold, an' they're beginning to think you'll make a better banker than the Nelsons. Funny, ain't it, how easy reconciled folks is to losin' a coupla prominent citizens like that?
He's asked about you two or three times in the last coupla months." "But I've no errand with him." "How can you tell? He might start something for you. It isn't often that he keeps a man in mind like he has you. Anyway, he's a wise old bird and may hand you a pointer or two about what's what in New York. Shall I 'phone him you're in town?" "Yes. I'll get in to see him some time to-morrow."
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