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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I'm glad it happened," she said "glad. In writing these articles I've tried to make him understood; I've tried to put my whole soul into them so that the people will see that he isn't, wouldn't be, a thief nor a grafter. I've described him as he is big, honorable, gentle " "I didn't know you were writing fiction," said her brother, impatiently. "I'm not. It's all true.
You know who it was, same as I do old C. Mayer Zurich, grand champion lightweight collar-and-elbow grafter and liar, cowman, grubstaker, general storekeeper, postmaster, and all-round crook, right here in Cobre right here where young Stanley's been gettin' 'em dealt from the bottom for three years. Them other post-office fellows never had no truck with Stanley never so much as heard of him.
Yet beneath his irritation he paid tribute to the self-respecting determination that had prompted the rebuff. The world in which he moved held few men of such ideals. Rather he had repeatedly been courted by the grafter, the promoter, the social climber, each beneath a thinly disguised friendship working for his own selfish ends.
The few citizens on the street who drifted toward the truck took a good look at them and moved on hastily. It seemed incredible that Wayne could be re-elected, though, even with the power of the gangs. Nolan was probably a grafter, too; but he'd at least be a change, and certainly the citizens were aching for that. The next day his relief was later.
He spoke in a penetrating nasal tone as I approached the open door of the room, and what he said to his unknown companion came as such a buffet in the face to me that I turned and walked away. The words I heard were: 'Freydon? Oh yes; clever, in his ten cent way. I allow the chap's honest, mind, but, sakes alive, he's only what a N'York thief would call a "sure thing grafter."
She's a grafter, Bob, and her whole family are grafters. Now, let me finish. She makes her living in any way she can; she smirks at you out of every catch-penny advertisement along Broadway. She's 'The Chewing-Gum Girl' and 'The Petticoat Girl' and 'The Bath-Tub Girl' " "There's nothing dishonest in that." "Just a minute.
That was before he, Roberts, had become a political grafter and when the decent things in life still appealed to him. The two men, although having few interests in common, had seen a good deal of one another until Roberts went to Washington when their relations were completely severed.
"'With very kindest regards, and ever at your service, believe me, Brother Stone, "'Truly yours, " " "He wired the house to ship the bill and sent the message paid." "That was what I call a grafter," said one of the boys. "Yes, you bet your life," said the wall paper man. "I myself once cured a man of the cancelling habit.
"And you sell the stuff?" "Yes." "Oh, then, that's what Pritchen and Perdue meant. I didn't understand them at the time." "Why, what did they say?" asked Keith. "They said a lot; told what a grafter you are, that you supply the Indians with all sorts of things, take their furs in return, and are making a fortune out of them, all under the cloak of religion." "And did they say that?"
He turned on an upper step, looking down on the ashy-faced little man, to whom he had once been subordinate and who was now subordinate to him. "Hello what?" he asked, with an air of quiet curiosity. "I said, Hello, grafter," Green repeated, with bravado. "Why?" "I guess you know that as well as I do." "I don't. What is it? Out with it. Fire away."
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