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You lose, then. I never sleep. Tex, for the love of Mike, do look at Bill's face; and Bill, you look at Mr. Jim, from Texas! Guilty as charged! Your scheme, was it, Texas? And Shorty Bill, he told you so? Why, you poor toddling innocents, you won't never prosper as crooks! Your faces are too honest. "And that frame-up of yours oh, that was a loo-loo bird!
"I don't know.... That Yankee invention known as the 'frame-up' would easily make America too small for the Lone Wolf without the British Secret Service ever being mentioned in the matter." "Yes; but suppose the beast knows the contents of this paper, suspects the authorship of the 'frame-up' as he instinctively would and blabs? Messages have been unsealed and copied and resealed before this."
"All they think of is to get what they can for theirselves. And I can do that myself. I'll get it out of you before you leave, or, anyhow, before you take your contraption away," and he glanced at the tank. The same suspicion came at once to Tom and Ned, and the latter gave voice to it when he murmured in a low voice to his chum: "This is a frame-up a scheme, Tom.
He waited a moment until he saw that his instructions were being carried out, then he leaped again to the doorway of the powder house. Sautee's face was livid, and his teeth were chattering. Rathburn took a match from his shirt pocket. "Stop!" screamed Sautee. "I'll talk. You were right. It was a frame-up. I'll tell everything everything!"
And they bet on Elisha this time, too." "I'm glad of it!" exploding the other. "It serves 'em right. I like to see a frame-up go wrong once in a while!" Side by side Elijah and Elisha fell back toward the field, little Mose grinning from ear to ear, but industriously hand riding his mount; Jockey Merritt cursing wildly and plying rawhide and steel with all his strength.
They got a recording of that on the air at once. When they got back to the hotel, Gus Brannhard was there, bubbling with glee. "The Chief Justice gave me another job of special prosecuting," he said. "I'm to conduct an investigation into the possibility that this thing, the other night, was a frame-up, and I'm to prepare complaints against anybody who's done anything prosecutable.
He would use it every half hour or so as he told about his adventures. "Yes," he would say; "he got gay, but we bumped him off all right." Section 41 So Nell and Peter settled down to work out the details of their "frame-up" on Joe Angell and Pat McCormick.
She trembled at the thought of being thus cast adrift on the world. Anita Douglas did not know which way to turn. In her dilemma she thought only of Constance. She hurried to her. "It was as you said, a frame-up," she blurted out, as she entered Constance's apartment, then in the same breath added, "That Mrs. Murray was just a stool pigeon." Constance received her sympathetically.
And often some poor "fall-guy" gets a good "frame-up" for a job he never thought of ... and the majesty of the law stands vindicated. The charge against us was vagrancy. We were tried by twos. "Come on, buddy!... you an' your pal." My companion and I were led in before, I think, a justice of the peace. The latter was kindly-disposed toward me because I was young and looked delicate.
But since he must be tolerant, he swung his horse to meet the Douglas when the brief conversation with Cheyenne was over. The Douglas head was shaking slowly, owning disappointment. "Well, yuh might as well make the rounds, Scotty. Go on and ask all the boys. If I asked 'em myself you might think it was a frame-up. And when you've made the rounds, take a look through the herd.
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