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He was a theatrical manager in Pittsburgh, a public man! and, as they told you, boasted that he was intimate with the members of the press and police force, who were dead-heads at his theatre, and who witnessed the performance gratuitously; so that you perceive he was very well known.
Patsy, coming from the station, joined the two dead-heads, and Moran, glancing at his watch, asked the cause of delay. "Waiting for a party of English tourists," said Patsy; "they're coming over the Grand Trunk, and the storm has delayed them." "And that same storm will delay you to-night, my boy, if I'm any guesser," observed the old engineer.
The train had scarcely stopped when the conductor and the two dead-heads were at the engine, searching, amid the roar of escaping steam, for the engine crew. A moment later Bennie came limping in from a neighboring field where he had been wallowing in a snow-drift. The operator, rushing from the station, stumbled over the body of a man. It was Guerin.
Stewart's request that she and her mother were put next to the Captain and they have the best stateroom the ship affords." "Ah, dead-heads, I surmise." "Not at all. They had their tickets and stateroom engaged and did not know of the honor done them until Pierce Kinsella told them himself. I fancy we are the only dead-heads on board." "Elise, I will not have you be so cynical. Mr.
The sound of that whistle, blown back over the train, fell upon the ears of Patsy and the two dead-heads, and filled them with fear. A second later they felt the clamp of brake-shoes applied with full force; felt the grinding of sand beneath the wheels, and knew that something was wrong.
Two minutes later the steward was back with word that the passengers in question were dead-heads, being none other than the manager of the Blue Star Navigation Company and his wife. "Steward, you go back and tell that man Skinner that Captain Peasley never carries any dead-heads on the Quickstep.
"Captain Peasley, I am opposed to your levity." "Do you want me to worry and stew just because you do not happen to like me and keep picking on me, Mr. Skinner? Why don't you be a sport and give me a fair chance, sir? You have all the best of it in any argument so why argue?" "No more dead-heads," Mr. Skinner warned. "Hereafter, pay for your guests."
'Then do you mean to say that it's all right that you believe 'I do, said Mr Prosser. 'By the way, he said, 'the notice of White Roses went up last night. Owen's heart turned to lead. 'But but he stammered. 'But tonight the house was packed. 'It was. Packed with paper. All the merry dead-heads in London were there. It has been the worst failure this season.
I can see trouble ahead for one of us," laughed Anthony. "They don't allow 'dead-heads." But Allan replied with unshaken confidence: "Then you should secure for me a pahss." Kirk found it extremely difficult to escape from his persistent shadow that afternoon, and he succeeded only after a display of armed resistance.
You've played us as dirty a trick as one man can play another. If we ever get a cinch on you, you can expect we'll pull her till the latigoes snap. "He kept shut till he got across the river, where he felt safe. "'It's all right about that cinch! he hollers back, grinning. 'Only wait till you get it, yer suckers! Sponges! Beats! Dead-heads! Yah!
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