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"I'll I'll go away," he said, "I was only going to sleep here." The convict, still guarding the door, leered brutally at him, his head hanging low, his lips apart, more like a beast than a man. "No, yer won't go 'way, nuther," he finally said; "yer ain't goin' ter double-cross me, pal. Wot d'yer say yer wuz?" "A scout," said Pee-wee. "I don't need to stay here, you were here first.
The little sailor stepped out of line with remarkable quickness, and as the yellow body whirled past him, his knife flashed blue-bright in the sunshine. Jenks fell forward, his knife buried in the grass beneath him, and his outstretched hand still holding the tomahawk. "Tryin' ter double-cross me fer my gold," muttered the sailor, sheathing his weapon.
I wouldn't double-cross you, but if the police get after me I'll have to come through." Willa smiled and then her face grew thoughtful. "This isn't a matter for the police. You look like a white man. What's your job worth to you a week?" "Anywhere from fifty to seventy-five; depends on the fares I get," the chauffeur returned promptly. "I think I can use you. What is your name?"
"Ah!" breathed Steele, sinking back. "Make it easier for her Russ, you're a damned schemer. You have given me the double-cross. You have and she's going to." "We're in bad, both of us," I replied thickly. "I've ideas, crazy enough maybe. I'm between the devil and the deep sea, I tell you. I'm about ready to show yellow.
Don't come to me for nothin' after this. Don't ever you darken my doorstep ag'in, 'e says. And Mr. Bayard, sir, 'e ups and laughs fiendish in 'is own father's fice. 'You've got another guess comin', he mocks 'im open': 'you're in this business as deep as me, 'e says, 'and if you cross me, I'll double-cross you, s'elp me Gawd, and in the newspapers, too. And with that, out 'e went in a rige."
"I guess we could get down there with a load," Tom assented easily. "I'd ruther have it on my land anyways." "Don't think, Tom Lorrigan, that we'd ever take it back from Mary Hope. No matter how Scotty acts up. But if they ever gave her the double-cross and got some one else to teach why it might be nice to know it's our schoolhouse, on our land."
Appeals for financial mercy fell on deaf ears. He was a free lance, and had no friendly business associations. Such alliances as were formed from time to time were purely affairs of expediency, and he regarded his allies as men who would give him the double-cross or ruin him if a profitable chance presented. In spite of this point of view, he was faithful to his allies.
I'd ruther help you fly your plane than fly one of my own. I'd run amuck agin if I owned anything I could raise money on. "If you think I tried to do you dirt, back there in the desert, bo, you're wrong. Ab-so-lutely. I thought you was fixing to double-cross me, and git away with the plane and leave me there. It got my goat I'll say it did that desert stuff.
The "Gallant kid" and Brennan, they were "regular guys," all right. Brennan was a "wisecracker," all right, all right. Some day he'd tell them why he was helping them. They thought he was doing it for the money they gave him. He wouldn't "double-cross" the "Gink" or anyone else for money, see? What kind of a "bird" did they take him for, anyway?
"What gits me wuss 'n them I.W.W.'s is the skunks thet give Uncle Sam the double-cross," said Andy, with dark face. "I'll stand fer any man an' respect him if he's aboveboard an' makes his fight in the open. But them coyotes thet live off the land an' pretend to be American when they ain't they make me pisen mad." "I heerd the vigilantes has marked men like thet," observed Bill.
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