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"That's the ticket," Webber agreed. "That's sure the boss racket of them all." "We couldn't git no tree into this shanty," objected Field. "This place ain't big enough to hold a Christmas puddin'." "Of course it is," said the carpenter. "It's ten foot ten by eighteen foot six inches, or I can't do no guessin'." "That 'mount of space couldn't hold jest me, on Christmas," estimated the teamster.
"You may put it at that," agreed Cai, greatly relieved. "I told you the case was a bit out o' the common!" Mr Benny's smile was still strictly professional. "It's not outside of my experience, sir; so far, at any rate. May I take your friend to be of your own age, more or less?" Cai nodded. "You're pretty quick at guessin', I must say."
I reckon he won't do you any more meanness." "Who killed him?" "They ain't sayin'," returned the teamster cautiously. "Some folks was guessin' that mebbe Dug Doble could tell, but there ain't any evidence far's I know. Whoever it was robbed the safe." The old cattleman made no comment. From the days of their youth Steelman had been his bitter enemy, but death had closed the account between them.
If the police try to hang it on you, I'll swear it's mine. Listen! there's the elevator stoppin' at this floor. It's them. Before we let 'em in, I'd like to tell you I've never had a more interestin' evenin' in my whole life. What's more I never saw a man like you. You got me guessin'. You're either the goshdarndest fool livin' or else you're the slickest confidence man outside of captivity.
You're guessin' that hill is an opportunity for me. Wal, I'm guessin' it ain't. Mebbe it is for others, but not for me. I got my opportunity twenty years ago, an' you give me that opportunity. I was starvin' to death then, an' you helped me out. You're my opportunity, an' it makes me glad to think of it.
If I hadn't found it they'd keep us guessin' until they was ready to get in some more fancy work, the Lord knows what. "That Trenjum is a slick customer I don't believe he ever writ anything for a newspaper, anyway he's too tall and strong-lookin' to make his livin' with a pencil. This Trenjum and the parson is in together for all of their lettin' on they don't like one another.
"Well, of course I'm only guessin'. Quite likely they're there yet, only it just seemed funny not to see them. But even if she is left alone with only Mrs. Archer, yuh ain't worryin' about anythin' really happenin' to her, are yuh? It'll be darn lonesome, an' all that, but Lynch an' the whole gang has beat it " "How do we know where they have gone?" cut in Stratton curtly.
"Now why can't I ketch hold o' this thing? It isn't a yard off me, I'll be snaked! And I dunno what ever she said that makes me think so, but I feel it in my bones, and no use o' callin' up words; it's one o' them things that comes without callin', when they come at all, and I'm so near guessin' I'll have no peace day or night."
The stranger's mood seemed to have entirely changed for the better by the time Scipio came up. His smile was almost amiable, and his manner of speech was comparatively jocular. "So you're chasin' that crook, James," he said easily. "Queer, ain't it?" "What?" "Why, he's run off a bunch of our stock. Leastways, that's how I'm guessin'. I'm makin' up to his place right now to spy out things.
It was just a little misunderstanding, and it blew over in a minute." "Ev'ry one on board knows there was bad blood 'twixt 'em," put in the mate, "and they come pretty nigh to guessin' the reason for it, too," he added with a leering glance at Ruth. "Stop, you dog!" shouted the captain in sudden rage. "If you say another word along that line I'll knock you down!"
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