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More whispering went on under that roof than in all the other places in town put together; for here rustling was planned, wayfaring strangers were "trimmed" in "frame-ups" at cards, and a hunted man was certain to find assistance.
Think of what's coming! We'll soon have a fine gladiator show to last for three days, no training-school pupils; most of them will be freedmen. Our Titus has a hot head and plenty of guts and it will go to a finish. I'm well acquainted with him, and he'll not stand for any frame-ups.
It wasn't twenty-four hours before every Red in American City knew the true, inside history of the unveiling of Peter Gudge as a spy of the Traction Trust. The story occupied a couple of pages in that week's issue of the "Clarion," and included Peter's picture, and an account of the part that Peter had played in various frame-ups.
If this here's a house of God's I'd like to know what he called the one he had then. I couldn't tell you half of what went on, not half, with fixing drinks and frame-ups and skirts. Why, he run a hop joint with the Chinese and took a noseful of snow at every other breath. That was after his gambling room broke up it got too raw even for the police.
"Bunk!" says I. "I'd bet a million of somebody else's money that this is just one of Whitey's smooth frame-ups." "I hardly think I follow you," says Mr. Robert. "Here's the idea," says I. "When 'The Buccaneer's Bride' was having that two-year run Penrhyn Deems was a good deal in the spotlight.
This, too, is, I fancy, the reason that the evidence of the police detective is received with so much suspicion by jurymen they know that the only way for him to retain his position is by making a record and getting convictions, and hence they are always looking for jobs and frame-ups.
"What you proposed to me then was a frame-up, and all frame-ups are dangerous, particularly when they have little to rest upon. For that reason I refused to fall in with your ideas, Race. This release of Santry from jail is or was an entirely different thing, an overt criminal act, with Sheriff Thomas on our side as an unimpeachable witness."
"It's like candy from a baby," Danny's manager proclaimed. Danny shook his head. "I've been in the game too long," he explained. "I'm not casting reflections on the referee, or the present company. I'm not sayin' nothing about book-makers an' frame-ups that sometimes happen. But what I do say is that it's poor business for a fighter like me. I play safe.
"If I put you to work again," snarled Guffey, "will you do what I tell you, and not what you want to do yourself?" "Yes, yes, Mr. Guffey." "You'll do no more frame-ups but my frame-ups?" "Yes, yes, Mr. Guffey." "All right, then, I'll give you one more chance. But by God, if I find you so much as winking at another girl, I'll pull your eye teeth out!" And Peter's heart leaped with relief.
That would be quite enough honor for me." "You're on! Say, that blacksmith yarn was a corker. He was a game old codger. That was scrapping; no hall full of tobacco-smoke, no palm-fans, lemonade, peanuts and pop-corn; just right out on the turf, and may the best man win. I know. I went through that. No frame-ups, all square and on the level.
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