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Updated: June 14, 2025
"One of the worst as ever I knew, sir," he replied, eying the whiskey bottle and the two half-drained glasses. "'Ad a long march, sir, fourteen miles." I pushed the bottle toward him, and with a deprecatory salute he turned out a stiff drink. "'Ere's to yer 'ealth, sir, an' may ye always 'ave an extra glass ready for a visitor."
Within the stuffy living-room, hazy now with tobacco smoke, by the uncertain light of a sputtering kerosene lamp Craig had accomplished a sprawling signature and received in return a check on a Chicago bank. It was already late, and very soon the new owner, with a significant look at a half-drained flask by the other's hand, and a curt "Good-night," had departed for bed.
Now for a while the white men are beaten back, but they have touched the gold they covet, and they will return again like bees to a half-drained flower. They will return, yet of themselves they can do nothing against the glory of Tenoctitlan. But how shall it go if with them come thousands and tens of thousands of the Indian peoples?
His was a surface not easily indented: he was hard and healthy, clear-skinned and clear-eyed. When he had made himself point-device, he went into the "parlour" of his apartment, frowning at the litter of malodorous, relics, stumps and stubs and bottles and half-drained glasses, scattered chips and cards, dregs of a night session. He had been making acquaintances.
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