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Updated: June 10, 2025
But I say deliberate that pigs has got no call to be in a cow country, not none, unless salted. Say, can't we salt this one? Then, who's the worse off for it? What's all this furse about, anyway?" "That's right, Curly," said Dan Anderson, who stood with hands in pockets and pipe in mouth, leaning against the door-jamb in front of his "law office."
"There's two diseases which the doctors ain't got any license to monkey with," began Bill, chewing out blue smoke from his lungs with each word, "and they're both fevers. After they butt into your system they stick crossways, like a swallered toothpick; there ain't any patent medicine that can bust their holt." I settled against the door-jamb and nodded.
"Yes, sir; pray, sir, be you the officer of the king's cutter?" "I am!" exclaimed Vanslyperken, leaning against the door-jamb for support. "Then, sir, here be a letter for you."
I was about to sit down to the first meal in my new abode, when an insinuating rat-tat sounded on the door. I opened it to find the ill-looking young fellow leaning languidly against the door-jamb, a cigarette between his teeth. "What do you wish?" I asked, in my most matter-of-fact manner.
Adams struck his shin against some obstacle and pitched headlong into darkness a howl of pain blent with a dull jarring rumble. Silence followed, and out of the silence broke a faint groan. "Bill! Bill Adams! Oh, Bill, for the Lord's sake !" Still mechanically shielding his candle, Mr. Jope staggered back a pace, and leaned against the stone door-jamb for support.
With the clerk beside her, Grace hurriedly crossed the room. With a prayer in her heart she pushed open the bedroom door. Her companion at the same moment felt along the door-jamb for the electric switch. In an instant the bedroom lights were turned on. Then Grace saw that her fears had been fully justified. On the floor, halfway between the door and the bed, lay Ruth Morton, apparently lifeless.
Prohack was unaware that during certain hours of the day he was entitled to ring the housekeeper's bell, on the opposite door-jamb, and to summon help from the basement. As he mounted it the staircase grew stuffier and stuffier, but the condition of the staircarpet improved. Mr.
Ranged round the wall, from one door-jamb to the other, were three rows of precious jewels. The first was a row of brooches of gold and silver, with their pins fixed in the wall and their heads outwards; the second a row of torques of gold and silver; and the third a row of great swords, with hilts of gold and silver.
"I would have shot him before he got to that door," he said, drawing his heavy flint-lock pistol and going through the motions of one aiming quickly and firing. Indeed, so vigorously in earnest was he with the pantomime, that he actually did fire, unintentionally of course, the ball burying itself in the door-jamb.
But the dazed question Larry was asking was interrupted by a voice from the door the thick voice of a man: "Who the hell 'r' you?" Larry whirled about. In the doorway stood a tall, bellicose young gentleman of perhaps twenty-four or five, in evening dress, flushed of face, holding unsteadily to the door-jamb. "I beg your pardon," said Larry.
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