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As Selwyn passed back along the corridor, the door of his sister's room opened, and Austin and Nina confronted him. "Has that damfool boy come in?" demanded his brother-in-law, anxiety making his voice tremulous under its tone of contempt. "Yes. Leave him to me, please. Good-night" submitting to a tender embrace from his sister "I suppose Eileen has retired, hasn't she?
"When you land in the calaboose for this racket I'll keep you in tobacco. What name shall I ask for?" "If I land there you can ask for a damfool and I'll answer the first time," laughed the holdup over his shoulder. "Next gent! Here's the little bag. Lady, keep your weddin' ring. You fat sport, stand up till I see what you're sittin' on. Why, was you tryin' to hatch out that bunch of money?
Peppajee did not seem to hear. "Sheriff say that, too. Sheriff found the gun." "Mebbyso sheriff mans heap damfool. Mebbyso heap smart. No sabe." Good Indian studied him silently. Reticence was not a general characteristic of Peppajee; it seemed to indicate a thorough understanding of the whole affair. He wondered if Rachel had told her uncle the truth.
I tried to move, and then I saw that my feet were propped up on the edge of Peter's basket. "Better leave them up." Mr. Holcombe said. "It sends the blood back to the head. Half the damfool people in the world stick a pillow under a fainting woman's shoulders. How are you now?" "All right," I said feebly. "I thought you were Mr. Ladley."
T'ell with Arizona." "T'ell with Arizona, huh? You're serious? You mean it?" "I'm serious as lead in yore inwards. 'Course I mean it. Ain't I been saying so plain as can be the last half-hour?" "You're saying so is plain enough. And so is the whyfor." "The whyfor?" "Shore, the whyfor. Say, do you take me for a damfool?
Or you can gimme a share in the net profits, and I'll keep the name and make it pull things our way. They's no use talking, bo, I've got the goods! The name Bland Halliday is a trademark for flyin' and never mind if it also stands for damfool. I'll brace up and give yuh the best I got. Honest, that's what I want a chance to get on my feet agin.
I could have told you that the first time I ever saw him. We all told him to cut it out, because he was sure to do some damfool thing if he didn't. He's done it, and his clubs have cut him out. It's his own funeral. Well, here's to you!" "Cut who out?" asked Fleetwood, ignoring O'Hara's parting shot concerning the decadence of the Fleetwood stables and their owner. "Stephen Siward.
"Somebody is offering to buy them. There was an advertisement in the paper this morning. Cutty?" "Yes." "The first problem in arithmetic is two and two make four. By-by!" Dizzily Cutty hung up the receiver. He had not reckoned on the possibility of Kitty seeing that damfool advertisement. Two and two made four; and four and four made eight; so on indefinitely.
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