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You know that I know you've been framed and double-crossed, and that I won't run you in unless I can't get out of it." "Thanks, Casey. You're too white to have to run with people like Barlow and Gavegan. But if it wasn't to pinch me, why did you stop me out there in the street?" "Been hoping I might some day run into you on the quiet.
Third Brother had a Luger automatic, and he looked ready to use it. The boys rolled away and got to their feet. The Sudanese got to his knees and started to get up. Moustafa struck with the Luger and the man collapsed. The pistol muzzle pointed at Rick. "You double-crossed me," Moustafa grated. "You were supposed to give me the cat an hour ago at the hotel.
There was one who was hit hardest of all, a youth of pleasing appearance who drew several pasteboards from his pocket and scowled at them for a moment before he ripped them to bits and hurled the fragments into the air. "Cleaned out! Busted!" ejaculated the Bald-faced Kid bitterly. "The old scoundrel double-crossed me!"
"She's been my ally all along, and I never suspected it! I wonder what her game can be." He sat musing for a long time. "Yes," he concluded presently, "old Poundstone has double-crossed us and Pennington made it worth his while. And the Colonel sold the Mayor his niece's automobile.
First you walloped 'em with Elisha, then you double-crossed 'em with Elijah, and then you got Weaver and Murphy ruled off. At first Engle thought you was only ignorant but shot full of blind luck. Lately he ain't been so sure about the ignorance. Engle hates to give anybody else credit for being wise to the angles around this track."
"She " he hesitated, and when he spoke again his voice did not tremble; there was a deep hurt and wonder in it: "She double-crossed me!" "When? Do you mean to say you've met a woman tonight out here among the willows? Where how " "Tex !" "Ay, Dan." "It's it's hell!" "It is now. But you'll forget her! The mountains, the desert, and above all, time they'll cure you, my boy."
If there's a slip-up anywhere it means my life. 'Red Mike' has told me that he'll kill me if he finds that he has been double-crossed. "That's all I need to tell you, I think, except that you will meet my detectives outside this building at half past seven.
Nobody yet's double-crossed me an' got away with it, an' nobody ain't goin' to not even a woman. That cañon's pretty deep, an' there's sharp stones a-plenty at the bottom." White-faced and tight-lipped, she turned away from him without a word and led the two horses back to the point he indicated.
He showed something of the defiant, almost maniacal courage of a coward who realizes he can retreat no farther. "What I got to say, Joe Ellison," he snarled in a sudden rage which bared his yellow teeth, "is that I'm even with you at last!" "Even with me? What for?" "For the way you double-crossed me in nineteen-one in that Gordon business.
"Wel-l...." George floundered helplessly for a moment; and fell back again upon an imagination for the time being stimulated to an abnormal degree of inventiveness: "P'raps old Shaynon's double-crossed her somehow we don't know nothin' about. He ain't above it, if all they tell of him's true.
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