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We've been a couple of mutts, who've bitten off a bigger bit than they can chew. I'm going to quit fooling right away!" "What do you mean?" "I'll tell you. I'm going to do what we ought to have done a week ago. I'm going right back to London to put the case in the hands of your British police. We fancied ourselves as sleuths. Sleuths! It was a piece of damn-fool foolishness! I'm through!
He shot the juice into her an' went off like a bat out of hell an' there was a hell of a lot of traffic on the road because there was some damn-fool attack or other goin' on. So I got up to Paris.... An' then it'ld all have been fine if I hadn't met up with a Jane I knew.
He was seated on the earthen door-sill of the hut where Kars was sleeping. He was contemplating with a pair of black, expressionless eyes the shadows growing in the crevices of the far side of the gorge. The occasional whistle of a bullet passing harmlessly overhead failed to disturb him in the smallest degree. Why should he be disturbed? They were only fired by "damn-fool neche."
The lady who had "houp-la'd" her way from Dublin to Yokohama was the spotless queen of beauty, and Dale was frenziedly, idiotically in love with her. That was all I could gather. When he had finished, which he did somewhat abruptly, he threw himself into a chair and took out his cigarette-case with shaky fingers. "There. I suppose I've made a damn-fool exhibition of myself," he said, defiantly.
"Who said the police did it?" snarled the colonel. "Of course they didn't. They haven't the sense. That's Mr. Jack o' Judgment once more, and this time, Pinto, he's real dangerous." "Jack o' Judgment!" gasped Pinto. "But would he commit a burglary?" The colonel laughed scornfully. "Would he commit murder? Would he hang Raoul? Would he shoot you? Don't ask such damn-fool questions, Silva!
And he remembered that he had once, so short a time before, regarded it as kindly, and the thoughts behind it as generous! "I like my job," he continued. "It gives me a sense of doing something useful of getting valuable education. Already I've had a thousand damn-fool ideas knocked out of my head." "I suppose it is interesting," said Ross, with gracious encouragement.
"That's what I want you to tell me," he returned. "You set up for understanding human nature, it's a mystery to me. In my place, you would do as I do; you know that. If somebody left you a hundred thousand pounds to-morrow, you would start a newspaper, or build a theatre some damn-fool trick for getting rid of the money and giving yourself seventeen hours' anxiety a day; you know you would."
"Besides," he said, with strained self-control, "besides, I'm like you, I'm not 'damn-fool honest'!" "Oh, I didn't say you weren't honest. Only, if I was going to take advantage of anybody, I'd do it for something more important than a blue china beetle." "The trouble with you, Mother, is that you don't see anything but those hideous Works of yours!" her son burst out.
Julyman grinned his relief that the white man saw nothing serious in that which all Indians regard as the voice of the spirits haunting their world. "Oolak eat plenty, much," he observed slyly. Steve helped himself to meat from the pan and dipped some beans from the camp kettle beside the fire. "Dreams are damn-fool things, anyway," he said.
"I believe, for a fact, we did not meet, but I think I saw you there once at some Embassy ball." The words rang, to Flora's ears, as if they had been shouted from the housetops. In the speaking pause that followed there was audible an unknown hortatory voice from the smoking-room. "I tell you it's a damn-fool way to manage it! What's the good of twenty thousand dollars' reward?"
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