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'And now what about Winifred Hurtle? asked Fisker. 'What makes you ask? She's in London. 'Oh yes, I know she's in London, and Hurdle's at Frisco, swearing that he'll come after her. He would, only he hasn't got the dollars. 'He's not dead then? muttered Paul. 'Dead! no, nor likely to die. She'll have a bad time of it with him yet. 'But she divorced him.
"That's just it, the child," assented the stranger, gravely. "Well, if that man was on his death-bed instead of being here talking to you, he'd swear that he thought the cap'en was sure to come up to it the next minit. That's a fact. But it wasn't until one day that he that's me ran across one of that crew in Frisco. 'Hallo, Cranch, sez he to me, 'so you got away, didn't you?
"I don't think I'd want it," he said, "at least not in a city, and I'm going to do the manufacturing work, of course, in a city." "Where are you going to be?" asked Hamilton. "I took the exam in 'Frisco," the older boy replied; "that's my home town, and I expect to work out there." "That's quite a walk from here!" exclaimed Hamilton.
"Let me tell it my own way," cried Wicks, loosening his neck. "Let me get at it gradual, or I'll explode. I've not only sold it, boys, I've wrung out a charter on my own terms to 'Frisco and back; on my own terms. I made a point of it.
Our cries brought the captain and mate on deck, and the sight of the outward-bounder made old man Burke's face beam like a nor'west moon. "A chance for ye now, byes," he shouted. "An open race, bedad! Ye've nothin' t' be afraid of if th' James Flint goes t' sea by Saturday!" Great was our joy at the prospect of the Yankee's sailing. The 'Frisco Merchants' Cup was to be rowed for on Saturday.
"Yes, I am. Just now I'd start for the North Pole. Wow! Those Spanish fellows sure liked a hot climate when they went out to take up land! Whoof! I'd give a lot for ten cubic feet of 'Frisco fog right now! Turn the blowers on in our rooms, Wilkins, and say, aim mine at the bath water. Well, look who's here! If that isn't Trask I'll " "Mr. Trask!" cried Miss Locke. "How jolly! Fancy meeting you!"
"Don't try to pull the creep stuff on me, Jim," said Cohen uneasily. "What are you driving at, anyway?" "Well," replied Poland, sipping his whisky reflectively, "how did that Chink get into the river?" "How the devil do I know?" "And what killed him? It wasn't drowning, although he was all swelled up." "See here, old pal," said Cohen. "I know 'Frisco better than you know Limehouse.
You'd a-been down there with Turnbull if you hadn't just had more'n your share of illness," added he, with the mariner's slight disapprobation of the landsman who defies initiations of Neptune. "Very possibly," said Loring. "The purser tells me Escalante gave him a little packet belonging to her very valuable, which he ordered kept in the safe until their agent should call for it at 'Frisco."
She woke, gulping, in bright sunlight, and the rattle changed to the noise of a motor halting on the drive. She gave yesterday a fleet review, rubbing her blackened elbows, but felt charitable toward Frisco Cooley by connotation; she had once sat down on a collie pup. But her bedroom clock struck ten times. Mrs. Egg groaned and rolled out of bed, reaching for a wrapper.
"Every man to his taste," Nick Inwood laughed; "but I should scarcely call getting married a good time." "Corry married!" Pentfield cried, incredulous and yet surprised out of himself for the moment. 'Sure," Inwood said. "I saw it in the 'Frisco paper that came in over the ice this morning." "Well, and who's the girl?"
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