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I didn't take the whiskey back to the boys, and Jack's been sayin' all the time I double-crossed him. Says I must ha' spent the money for booze and drunk it meself. And mebbe I would of if I hadn't lost the five," admitted Narnay, wagging his head. "But I don't understand," broke in Nelson Haley. Janice touched his arm warningly.
Kells's radiance fled, leaving him ghastly. He stared at Oliver. "You've double-crossed yourself an' your pards," went on Oliver, pathetically. "What's your word amount to? Do you expect the gang to stand for this?... There lays Red Pearce dead. An' for what? Jest once relyin' on your oath he speaks out what might have showed you.
I'm going to tell the world. We deserve it. Moreover, that fine lad is going to marry my daughter; she's the genius who double-crossed her own father and got behind Bill Conway. God bless her. God bless him. Nobody can throttle my pride in that boy and his achievements. You two tried to mangle him and you forced me to play your game.
The Wolf had double-crossed the underworld, and the underworld, if it found it out, would not easily forgive and even in a death cell, clinging to the hope of commutation of sentence, the Wolf would never run the risk of his additional guilt of the Spider's murder leaking out. The role of "Smarlinghue" in the underworld was safe. And now Jimmie Dale's lips twitched queerly.
When Sam had left, which he did rather in the manner of a heavy father in melodrama, shaking the dust of an erring son's threshold off his feet, I mixed myself a high-ball, and sat down to consider the position of affairs. It did not take me long to see that the infernal boy had double-crossed me with a smooth effectiveness which Mr Fisher himself might have envied.
They told him a man named Paddington had double-crossed you, but of course I knew that was all rot, the minute I'd doped it out. You've got a fortune under your roof this minute, and you don't know it, Mac! That's the best joke of all! You're entertaining an angel unawares!" "Say, what're you gettin' at, Mr. Blaine?"
In the waiting room, where he now spent more of his time, he listened one day to the Montague girl chat through the window with the woman she called Countess. "Yeah, Pa was double-crossed over at the Bigart. He raised that lovely set of whiskers for Camillia of the Cumberlands and what did he get for it? just two weeks. Fact! What do you know about that?
And he knew that you thought you had until the first of August. It was Wentworth that tipped the deal off to me." "But why should he have double-crossed me?" "Mere matter of business," replied Orcutt. If he stayed with you the best he could expect would be a fair salary. With us he was in position to dictate his own terms. They were stiff terms, too, for Wentworth is shrewd.
But suppose I accept it as a gift; I leave you an exchange a present for Jud that you can give him later on. Is that fair?" "Andy," said the old man, "you've double-crossed me, and you've got me where I can't talk out before Jud. But I'll get even yet. Good-by, lad, and put this one thing under your hat: It's the loneliness that's goin' to be the hardest thing to fight, Andy.
Oh, how I would steal the Derby from John H. Hatfield and his four-year-old wonder. I owe Hatfield a poke anyhow. We went raiding together once and the old sinner double-crossed me." "Who is John H. Hatfield?" Don Mike queried mildly. "Oh, he's an aged sinner down in Wall Street. He works hard to make the New Yorkers support his racing stables. Poor old John!
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