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Feeling certain that popular opinion would be with him in case he decided to lead in this struggle, I was convinced that the delay in announcing his attitude toward the Smith-Nugent "defi" was dampening the ardour and enthusiasm of many of his friends.
Randall nodded in his usual diffident fashion, and slid into the oak shadow, where he squatted on his heels. "About this Scar-face Charley," he said abruptly, "I hear he's issued his defi, and you've taken him up. Do you know anything about this sort of thing?" "Not a bit," admitted Johnny frankly. "Is it a duel; and are you gentleman here to act as my seconds?"
The crowd is celebrating there. It is a défi, you know." "Who are you going to take with you?" "Nobody." McCloud moved uneasily. "I don't like that." "There will be nothing doing. Sinclair may be gone by the time I arrive, but I want to see Bob and Gene Johnson, and scare the Williams Cache coyotes, just to keep their tails between their legs." "I'd like to kill off half a dozen of that gang."
Although England had no territorial interests there, it was important for many reasons to warn the Kaiser that she would oppose his policy with armed force if necessary. A strong voice was needed to sound this note. Lloyd George did it. Hence it came about that the Chancellor of the Exchequer stood in the Mansion House on a certain momentous day and hurled the defi at the War Lord.
The encouragement that this brought him, backed up by Arthur Hallam's declaiming the piece in public as a sort of defi to detractors caused him to fix his attention more assiduously on verse. He could write it was the only thing he could do and so he wrote.
Wherever they could induce him to go, they dragged Laramie at once as an exhibit and a defi; but Laramie objected to the thoroughness with which his companions essayed to cover the territory, and unfeelingly withdrew from the party to go to bed.
"No more do I," quickly replied the other. "I'm not used to bein' ordered around as if I was a slave. What if there are four of them, aren't eighteen husky scouts equal to such a crowd? No, siree, if you left it to me, I'd say stick it out till the last horn blows. Give 'em the defi right from the shoulder. Tell 'em to go hang, for all we care.
She has an idea she'll be mistress of The Dreamerie." Elizabeth arched her eyebrows. "What else?" she queried amiably. "That's all from Nan Brent. I have a small defi to make on my own account, however, Miss Elizabeth. From this minute on I wash my hands of the private affairs of the McKaye family. My job is managing your father's financial affairs.
"Buck up, Old Top," said the faithful Prompter. "Fasten your Eye on the Ball and don't try to Force. He is sure to blow up sooner or later. Take another Lesson to-morrow morning and then publish your Defi in the afternoon." He never had been strong enough to stand off Ambition. So the next Day he took on Old Sure-Thing again and got it in the same Place. No wonder.
Bud stepped up, flushing painfully under his tan, awkwardly fumbling his hat. "Ah Ah reckon they think thet you're 'bout the gamest little sport thet ever hit the leather," declared Bud. "Any feller thet sez you ain't, is a liar and a hoss thief!" Bud glared about him as if challenging some one to take up his defi.
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