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Millot was stumbling, laughing, swearing meaninglessly out of pure satisfaction, pleased with himself for having run down that fly-by-night. "As if there were such things as ghosts! Bah! It took an old African soldier to show those clodhoppers. . . . But it was curious. Who the devil was she?" Susan listened, crouching. He was coming for her, this dead man. There was no escape.
Troy Wilkins, the Septimus Building is filled with offices of fly-by-night companies shifty promoters, mining-concerns, beauty-parlors for petty brokers, sample-shoe shops, discreet lawyers, and advertising dentists.
"Not on the fly-by-night stuff; I don't mean that. But I could take twice the contracts if I had twice the outfit." Y.D. brought his chair down on to all four legs and removed his cigar. "You mean we should hit her together?" he demanded. "It would be a great compliment to me, if you had that confidence in me, and I'm sure it would make some good money for you." "How'd you work it?"
"The lad's game," said Cronin, with a commending look at the tall, easy figure by the steps. "But 'tis all like fly-by-night theatricals to me. The talk's bigger than the stage; there's a smell of gasoline in the air, and they're their own audience and scene-shifters."
Marty ran out again, and heard what she said. "Where you goin'?" he demanded. "Mr. Haley can't ice boat you to Middletown." "To the Landing," begged Janice. "By jinks! so he can," shouted the boy. "Lemme go, too, Mr. Haley. You'll want somebody to 'tend sheet on the Fly-by-Night." "But I do not understand?" queried the teacher, staring from one to the other of the excited pair.
For instance, I be a gamekeeper to-day, and I take a view of fish and birds according; but once on a time I was a fly-by-night young rip of a poacher, and had a very different idea about feathers and fins. "A fish be no more the bank-owner's fish than the water in the river be his water!" That's what I used to say. Because a salmon he's a sea-fish, and free as air and his own master.
They began to know the hours when certain trains passed, and they gave names to them. The 9.15 up was called the Green Dragon. The 10.7 down was the Worm of Wantley. The midnight town express, whose shrieking rush they sometimes woke from their dreams to hear, was the Fearsome Fly-by-night. Peter got up once, in chill starshine, and, peeping at it through his curtains, named it on the spot.
Only the dago's horrified words, only the confirmative symptoms of these farther fires, had these fly-by-night rescuers to warrant their mission. The story had its probable side.
'Yes, I thought he was too clever looking to care about dancing, and I don't wonder he has gone home. But it would have been nice if I had had the chance to tell him he was going to have the command of the Fly-by-Night.
'I heard people say she was a man-of-war. 'That is the Fly-by-Night. 'Oh, indeed, said Nan, with no greater interest than before. 'And Lieutenant King has just called here, the elder sister said, pointedly. 'Oh, indeed, said Nan. 'I wish I had been in; I should like to have seen him in uniform.
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