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I know you." "Thank you for your faith and encouragement, Stella. But it's going to be a hard pull, and it will take all of us to do it." "What do you think of it now?" "My idea is, that the alleged forty thousand dollars was not real money at all, and that Norcross was trying to double-cross the very men he was standing in with." "Still, I hardly understand."
"One thing I can't understand," Knowlton said, toying with his coffee cup the next morning, "is why Schwandorf should double-cross us. We never did anything to him. Another thing I don't quite get is how he expected to have the Peruvians wiped out when he knew blamed well they were aware of the enmity of the cannibals. They'd hardly be likely to go into the bush with us under those circumstances."
In a moment of inspiration I seized my rifle, gave him a dig in the shins with the butt, and shouted, "Stand to, Shorty!" He came out rubbing his leg ruefully. "You got the idea, mate," he said. "That's just wot they does w'en you tries to double-cross 'em by pullin' yer feet in. I ain't sure w'ere I likes it best, on the shins or on the feet."
With his left hand pressed deep into his side he rose slowly to his feet and lurched forward. "You rat!" he yelled. "Double-cross me, will yeh?" He heard the sound of a body moving over loose stones and halted, weaving in his tracks and peering into the gloom. "Come out!" he ordered. "Come out and own up and I'll let yeh off." There was a silence. "I see yeh!"
They told us that you an' Skipper Simms was a-fixin' to double-cross us all an' leave us here to starve on this Gawd-forsaken islan'. Theriere said that he was with you when you planned it. That you wanted to git rid o' as many of us as you could so that you'd have more of the ransom to divide. So all we done was in self-defense, as it were.
Charley Chaplin asserts that he has "a good gag" that he's going to try out to-day and see how it goes. One of the other clowns in the course of dressing comes up to Pat Valdo, and Pat introduces his two pupils. "Newspaper men, hey?" says the latter. "What did you tell me for? I usually double-cross the newspaper men when they come up to do some clowning," he explains to us.
"Dryden and I have been batching it together in New York," said Dean Silver. "My wife's been here since April with her mother and our kid. When I came on, I got Dryden here to come, too. They want me to take a long sea trip: I hope you'll help me persuade him to come, too. He's trying to double-cross me on it, I think. He said he'd come as far as California, and then see how things looked.
"No." "You intended to let me shift for myself out here in this wilderness?" "Yes, after this Indian guides you to the river-trail," said Brandt, indicating with his finger the nearest savage. "I get what you frontier men call the double-cross'?" "That's it," replied Brandt with a hard laugh, in which Legget joined. A short pause ensued. "What will you do with the girl?" "That's my affair."
I could git money for tellin' that feller what I know." "Go on and tell him then," Chadron spoke with a dare in his words, and derision "that'll be easy money, and it won't call for any nerve. But you don't need to be plannin' any speech from the gallus you'll never go that fur if you try to double-cross me!" "I ain't aimin' to double-cross no man, but you can call it that if it suits you.
"Oh, Lord, Russ, to think you would double-cross me the way you did!" That was his first speech to me after I had appeared to face round from the grave. His good-humored reproach told me more than any other thing how far from his mind was thought of death for me.
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