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And I've got four thousand that belongs to that four-flusher, Square Deal. Seven thousand." He laughed again. "Where is Sanderson?" questioned the girl. "In jail, over in Okar." Dale paused long enough to enjoy the girl's distress. Then he continued: "Owen is in jail, too, by this time. Silverthorn and Maison are not taking any chances on letting him go around loose."

Say, the wife of a boarding house is a wife, not a maid, and you've been such a four-flusher as to make her wipe your feet." "When did I make her wipe my feet?" I asked. "I don't know whether you did or did not, but anyway they're pretty sore about you. He said he can make ten or fifteen yen easily if he sell a roll of panel-picture." "Damn the chap! Why did he take me for a boarder then!"

They packed before the tent, trying to peer in through the half-closed tent-opening, like a crowd about a house where a policeman is making an arrest. Furiously: "Where's the coward? Fake! Bring 'im out! Why don't he fly? He's a fake! His flying-machine's never been off the ground! He's a four-flusher! Run 'im out of town! Fake! Fake! Fake!"

He helped Alice from the ground where she sat propped against a rock and assisted her to mount, being careful to adjust the scarf over her nose and mouth. As the horses with lowered heads bored through the dust-storm the Texan cursed himself unmercifully. "This is all your fault, you damned four-flusher! You would run a girl that girl, into a hole like this, would you? You low-lived skunk, you!

"Yes, reading about the biggest four-flusher in the Yew-nited States," said he, looking over an afternoon paper which had just come in. "Who do you mean?" "Penrose. Say if it was a Republican in the White House, theyda passed the treaty long ago." The proprietor of this shop is a humorist. Someone came in asking for a certain brand of cigarettes. He does not sell tobacco.

"You're not really going to try that absurd stunt?" protested Loring incredulously. "I have to. Miss Joy will think I'm a four-flusher if I don't." "Miss Joy again!" laughed Loring. "You only met her Saturday, and I don't think you've thought of another thing since." "Gresham and her million," corrected Johnny, and he started for the door.

But I can't let that four-flusher pull the wool over your eyes without saying, 'Beware of the dog. I shouldn't be a man if I did." "You take advantage of our friendship," she said, severely; "but there are limits beyond which even an old friend cannot go, and you've reached them. Mr.

"You regard me as a four-flusher, a tramp, maybe a thief or worse. I am but little more than half your age and I am a person of absolutely no importance. That's neither here nor there. I have been selected to run this job because Captain Trigger, with Mr. Mott and virtually every other man on this ship, believes that I know how to handle it. But even that's neither here nor there.

But you lose out on that side even when you think you've won. You get exactly what you go after, but you don't get any more, and so you lose out. Why? Because you're an egg-sucker and a nest-robber and a shrike, and a four-flusher and a piker, that's why! "The first road don't give you anything you can put your hands on; except that you think and hope maybe there's that light at the end of it.

"Drop that gun, you four-flusher, and I'll whale you till you can't stand. Sabe? Call yourself a bad man, do you? Time I'm through with you there will be one tame wolf crawling back to Dead Cow with its tail between its legs." The taunt diverted his mind, just as Curly had hoped it would. He thrust the revolver back into the holster and reached for his foe.