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"Know him, eh?" said Calumet, watching them narrowly. "Well, he done his duty done what you wanted him to do. But your man, Telza, double-crossed him knifed him." He took up the rapier-like blade that he had drawn from Sharp's side and held it before their eyes. Again they started, and Calumet laughed. "Know the knife, too!" he jeered.
"He's treated me white when he saw how I was being double-crossed by fellows I thought were my pards. Now, Clancy, here's a plan I've thought of: From all I can find out, Wynn and Katz haven't an idea you and Hill are up Avalon. Suppose we three go to their hang-out and jump them? We can do it, and recover the money.
"Lord, sir, you sound as if you'd been crossed an' double-crossed in love, you do " "Ah what do you mean?" "No offence, sir! But y' see, I were in love once ah, an' with a sweet purty lass an' she wi' me, but afore I could marry 'er she bolted along of a circus cove in a scarlet, laced coat an' whip, d'ye see." "Extremely feminine!" said I, nodding.
Why, only this morning, he tipped Charley off to beat it, and Charley did. Maybe he thinks the kid's double-crossed him." Morrow's heart leaped in sudden excitement at this astounding news, but he controlled himself, and replied nonchalantly: "Search me. He told me I'd find this Charley-boy here; that's all I know. He isn't talking for publication not Pad." "You bet not!" The bartender nodded.
Of course Hardy double-crossed him to get the uranium himself. That was why you were pulled off the project and sent to Pluto, Strong. Then he got Vidac to be his aide and everything looked rosy." "It's still hard to believe that Hardy was behind the whole operation," said Astro, shaking his head. "Imagine the governor of the colony ratting on his own people."
But somethin' tells me thet, shaky as I am in my boots, I'd liefer be in mine than yours." With that, and expelling a heavy breath, he wrestled around to confront the hunter. "Wade. I've no hunch to your game, but it's slower'n I recollect you." "Why, Cap, I was in a talkin' humor," replied Wade. "Hell! You're up to some dodge. What'd you care fer my learnin' thet pup had double-crossed me?
"They've double-crossed us!" he cried. "The servants of Starpha have turned on us." He holstered his pistol and snatched up his submachine-gun, taking cover behind the edge of the door and letting go with a burst in the direction of the lifter tubes. "Got that one!" he grunted. "What happened, Olirzon?" Verkan Vall asked, dropping the game bag on the table and hurrying across the room.
Seems there was some rumpus aboot th' old Rhamda Avec, which same Oi always kept away from him as was goin' to prove th' spirits! Annyhow, we was guardin' th' temple awaitin' th' spook as was promised. An' thot's how we got th' ould doc. "But th' Rhamdas niver saw him. Th' Senestro double-crossed 'em, an' slipped th' doctor oop to th' Palace av Light." "The Palace of what?"
It is my firm conviction that we are now, on this pleasant afternoon, double-crossed in a good and workmanlike manner. "The Johnson-Mitchell firm is now Johnson, Mitchell & Company, our late friends, or the survivors, being the Company." These remarks were addressed to the elder of Mr. Dewing's two table mates. But it was Eric Anderson, tall and lean and lowering, who made answer.
For ten seconds Johnny was scared, which was a new sensation. For longer than that he had a guilty consciousness of having "double-crossed" a partner. He had a wild impulse to stop the taxi and sprint back to the hotel after Bland, and give him fifty dollars or so as a salve to his conscience, even though he could not take him into this new enterprise or even tell him what it was.
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