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Then there was , an ex-Z. P. who lost his three years' savings on the train, for which reason I shadowed a well-known American for it is a Z. P. rule that no one is above suspicion about Panama afoot and in carriages nearly all night, in true dime-novel fashion. There was the day that I was given a dangerous convict to deliver at Culebra Penitentiary.
Gone is our ancient glory our rep. is irretrievably in the tureen. Henceforth when a pilgrim from the pathless Southwest registers at an Eastern hotel the bell-boys will not fall over each other to do him honor as a dime-novel hero, nor the gilded clerk insure his life before politely requesting him to pay in advance. The last lingering shadow of our greatness hath departed.
The rid man told stories about the dark sides of New York life, tales of murder, thievery, rascality high and low, and he told them with blood-curdling directness. The Walker wife-murder; the inside facts of the De Pugh divorce scandal; the Harvey family's skeleton all food for the dime-novel producer.
He turned around and, launching a full-featured, dime-novel sneer, made a loud remark about the right of the lower animals to ride with human beings. In a half-second the workman had dropped his pail and let fly at him. Unprepared, Samuel took the blow neatly on the jaw and sprawled full length into the cobblestone gutter. "Don't laugh at me!" cried his assailant. "I been workin' all day.
Then again, you can see that I could not write about a man like William in the modern forked-lightning literary style, as if he was a new brand of spiritual soap or the dime-novel hero of a fashionable congregation.
"Aw, rot!" said Yorke, disgustedly. He sniffed, with his peculiar mannerism, "that's dime-novel stuff, Red. D'ye think he'd be fool enough to risk that, with the chances of the fellow being picked up any minute and squealing on him?" He was silent a moment. "Rum thing, though," he murmured, "the way that hobo did beat us to it." "'Some lokil man, sez Kilbride," remarked Slavin musingly.
But I guess all that can wait, for I'm anxious to get to business. We're not here on a joy-ride, Major, so I reckon we'll leave out the dime-novel adventures. I'm just dying to hear them, but they'll keep. I want to know how our mutual inquiries have prospered. He gave Peter and me cigars, and we sat ourselves in armchairs in front of the blaze.
"Did I? Well, your penetration passes bounds." "You may go, if you will write the letter. There must be no dime-novel stories in it, no drawing on your imagination. It shall be your task to make interesting just what you see and do." "Please add the twelve labors of Hercules." "No trifling. I'm in earnest, and put you on your mettle in regard to that letter.
"That might lead to their being recognized." "Oh, that's the game?" mused Tom Reade aloud. "Why, I thought they had the handkerchiefs over their faces because " "Shut up and listen!" warned Jim Duff. "...because," finished Tom, "they wanted me to feel that everything was being done regularly and in good dime-novel form.
It's about time you had your darned dime-novel romance shown up to you the way it strikes somebody else. You think you're a tremendous dashing twentieth-century Young Lochinvar, don't you? You thought you had done a pretty smooth bit of work when you sneaked Ruth away! You! You haven't enough backbone in you even to make a bluff at working to support her.
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