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Ernie's ferret-like eyes blinked in sheer amazement. Down in his mean little heart there always had been a dark fear of this rather imposing man; in his mind there was a no uncertain estimate of the Colonel's almost supernatural power to read the thoughts of others. "If he's outside there I don't know it," he said doggedly. "You told him I had sent for you, Ernie. Don't lie. I know you did.
The hunchback was staring at him with a strange, unfamiliar expression in his face. It was a look of combined wonder and awe. "Come on, Ernie. Let's get out of here." "Just a moment, Ernie," interposed the Colonel. "Sit down and listen to what I have to say." But, for the first time since it entered his body, Ernie's soul arose above the sordid flesh.
Tell me, if you know" and I laid my hand upon her arm and whispered this inquiry, waiting impatiently for a confirmation of my almost certainty. For, that my darling was Ernie's Angy, I could not doubt, and the thought moved me to tremulous emotion. "Dar, now: you is going to hab one ob dem bad turns agin I sees it in your eyes.
"Wait a minute, Dick, listen to me," he fairly croaked in his excitement. "Let's hear what his plan is. Maybe we can see a way to help him. Le' me talk, Dick. Leave it to me. I'm smart and sensible. You're off your nut to-night. Just le' me do the talking." "That's right," cried the Colonel quickly. He recognized an asset in Ernie's despicable greed. Dick shook off his brother's hand. "No!
Its gaudy, insistent cheapness leaped out at the observer with much the same appeal for favor that one imputes to the garments of a clown. One might have read the envy in Ernie's soul as his eyes swept the tall, straight, simply clad Southerner who approached. He stood his ground defiantly, however; there was no smile of friendliness on his thin lips. "Hello, Ernie," said David.
Right then and there is where Joey writes to you for help. You fork over proper-like, as you should, and he pays back what he owes Grand, preferring to owe you. So he got rid of the devil for more than forty days. That's about the time I goes to the pen. I carelessly lets myself get nabbed, actin' on Ernie's advice. He's a slick kid, that boy is.
A harsh, discordant voice was speaking at his elbow. He turned. Ernie Cronk was standing beside him. It required a moment of concentration on the part of the infatuated David to grasp the significance of a certain livid hue in Ernie's face. The hunchback was looking up at him. His eyes were bleak with unhappiness. There was no anger in them: only despair.
If I'd waited a week after hearin' Joey's story of that dog's attentions to Ruby, I'd ha' been in Kingdom Come long ago, and so would he. We'd both been down below to welcome Mrs. Grand's lawyer when he arrived. So, actin' on Ernie's advice, I gets pinched the second night after hearin' about it. Ernie's a humane cuss. He saved two lives, then and there."
That man has studied words until he handles them as if they were foot-balls, and were to go exactly where he sent them." "He is looking this way. The next thing you know he will throw some at us for whispering." This was Ernie's attempt to quiet Marion's tongue. That or some other influence had the desired effect.
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