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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Why, at one place I was woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning by what I thought was a chariot race in the hall outside, but it was only a lot of young bloods rolling ten pins down by the rooms, using empty wine bottles for pins and China cuspidores for balls. I would have gone out and shot enough drunken galoots for a mess, only I was afraid a cuspidore would carom on my jaw.
It is to the Queen's apron strings like an idiot's scalp to the belt of an Apache squaw. Whenever John Bull whistles it comes a running like a half-grown spaniel at the call of a stable-boy. It has never mustered up sufficient sense and sand to set up for itself. It is the red bandana upon which Britannia blows her protrusive bugle. It is the cuspidore into which she voids her royal rheum.
To the waiting man he was simply measuring the threat against him, and probing its possibilities for mischief. "Yet this fellow. He on the run is Yes?" The eyes were smiling as they came back again to Idepski's face. The agent nodded, flinging his cigarette end into the porcelain cuspidore beside the desk. "Which makes me all the more sure of the game," he said confidently. "He's rattled.
He helped himself to a chew of tobacco and kicked a cuspidore within his reach. "The fire-bugs are out," he said. "The last of 'em. I jest got word through. It's the seventh. An' it's the tally." It was a sharp, matter-of-fact statement. He was telling of a human killing, and there was no softening. Bull nodded. He glanced over his shoulder. "You mean ?" "They shot five of 'em to death.
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