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I suppose it has been developed like a cat's whiskers to supply the deficiency of a natural scent. Also, like the whiskers, it is obtrusive, and a matter for much irritatingly complacent pride. Judith regarded me with a mock magisterial air, and I was put into the dock at once. "Something has happened," I said, desperately.
The prolonged sojourn of the 'Triomphante' in the dock, and the distance of our dwelling from the town, have been my excuse these last two or three days for not going up to Diou-djen-dji to see Chrysantheme. It is dreary work in these docks.
"Do you know who she is?" blurted out Drew. "No, sir. But the skipper does, I reckon." "All right," Drew said, and turned to descend the plank to the dock. As he did so he found himself confronting the one-eyed man who had figured in the incident on the dock the previous afternoon.
From these and from the tenements came pouring angry throngs of men. And out of the hubbub I caught the words, "They're bringing in the scabs! By boat!" Past a watchman that I knew I ran into a dockshed and out to the open end of the dock. And there I saw a weird ominous scene.
Jimmy Clark rode between various stations east of Fort Kearney, usually between Big Sandy and Hollenburg. Sometimes his run took him as far West as Liberty Farm on the Little Blue River. James W. Brink, or "Dock" Brink as he was known to his associates, was one of the early riders, entering the employ of the Pony Express Company in April, 1860.
"That's Judge Gibson, of Carlisle," he said finally in a very impressive tone. "You fellers may be glad you ain't sittin' afore him in the dock this minute especially that chap down yonder. O, my! wouldn't you get salty sentences though!" A loud summons from the judge started the little man off in a hurry, and the conversation came to an abrupt ending.
The worst man, the biggest criminal I ever saw in the dock, looked as innocent as a baby." "All the same, I don't believe you," Celia declared, doggedly. "I am sorry to say the court is not with you," he said, with a smile that did not hide his bitterness. "The cheque was cashed by the prisoner myself, my lord. You see, I accept you as judge.
Rob McIntyre had been angling for codfish at the top of Valdez dock for the past half-hour. Now, hearing the hoarse boom of the ocean vessel's whistle out in the fog-bank which covered the mouth of the harbor, he pulled in his fishing-line, hurriedly threw together his heap of flapping fish, and, turning, sent shoreward the cry always welcome to dwellers in Alaska coast towns. "Steamboat!
What I say is, 'Blood will tell!" And then in a body every one in the club would move against the bar and exclaim: "Here's to Cuba libre!" When the Olivette from Key West reached Tampa Bay every Cuban in the Tampa cigar factories was at the dock. There were thousands of them and all of the Junta, in high hats, to read David an address of welcome.
Besides he was not a young woman who might find excuse in the glamour of Harry's position or the attraction of Harry's eyes; he was not a romantic young woman; he was only a romantic old fool. He could bear it no longer. He must speak. He could not get into the dock beside her for that would throw away the case which she was defending so gallantly but he must speak a word for her.
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