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Updated: May 26, 2025
Mother heard a couple of weeks ago that one of our old Epworth League girls was having a hard time of it she's working at the Racket store, helping to support her folks. They've had sickness, and the girl doesn't get big wages. So mother asked me to look her up. Mother can't get about very easily, you know, and since I'm studying medicine she seems to think I'm the original Mr. Fix-It.
I have to look big and talk big the whole blessed time, and I am tired of it. It ain't nateral to me; and, besides braggin' and repudiatin' at the same time, is most as bad as cantin' and swearin'. It kinder chokes me. I thought it all though, and said it all to myself. 'And, sais I, 'take your time, Sam; you can't do it, no how, you can fix-it. You must wait your time, like other folks.
He also was employed by "friends of Jefferson Beard" and other "interested parties." With Veitch there was imported from Los Angeles one Malcolm McLaren, an M. and M. detective and office partner with Veitch, to act as "fix-it" man for the lumber trust. McLaren was at one time an operative for the infamous Wm.
"So I did," said Leslie sourly. "I was Mr. Fix-it sure enough." He allowed a short interval to elapse before taking the plunge. "I suppose, old chap, if I should happen to need your valuable services as best man in the near future, you'd not disappoint me?" Booth eyed him quizzically. "I trust you're not throwing yourself away, Les," he said drily.
I have to look big and talk big the whole blessed time, and I am tired of it. It ain't nateral to me; and, besides braggin' and repudiatin' at the same time, is most as bad as cantin' and swearin'. It kinder chokes me. I thought it all though, and said it all to myself. 'And, sais I, 'take your time, Sam; you can't do it, no how, you can fix-it. You must wait your time, like other folks.
The conventions nor the tongue of gossip was non-existent to Scattergood Baines, and Yvette, not reared in a school where trust in men is easily learned, was shrewd enough to recognize Scattergood's purpose and her own safety. "I s'pose you're the local Mr. Fix-it," she said, with sarcasm.
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