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His brows were depressed with profound thought. Nor were the blue depths of his eyes easy. Peters' whole attention was upon the rancher. "Now, see right here, Masters," Dug went on, after a deeply considering pause. "I got a story to tell you I'd have liked to hold up, an' the reason I hate handin' it you is jest a sort o' fool sense of honor.
'I must ride the horse myself. "'What's sad about that? I says. 'You ain't much over a hundred 'n' forty, at a guess. "'The trouble is not with my weight it's my disposition, he says. 'I have not ridden for ten years. In fact I never rode much. To tell you the truth I'm afraid of a horse. "Say I'd liked that young chap fine till then! I think he's handin' me a josh at first.
"You were almost as important as a wedding gown; the club's farewell reception 'To what base uses we do " "Oh, here's your slippers!" Arline thrust half her body into the room and held the slippers out to Val. "I stuck 'em into my pockets to bring up, and forgot all about 'em, mind you, till I was handin' the drummers their tea.
Larry the Bat, his left hand free again, turned his flashlight upon the detective. "Youse can put yer flippers down now. Mabbe she staked youse ter de tip dat de bonds was here, eh?" "Yes, blast you both of you!" growled Meighan. "Well, dey ain't," said Larry the Bat coolly; "but mabbe, after all, she wasn't handin' youse no steer." Meighan, savage at his own helplessness, snarled his words.
"'Here, says he to the hack driver, 'take these this pair of salads to the what d'ye call it? the Golconda House, wherever on top of the pavement that is. And mind you, deliver 'em safe and don't let the truck horses get a bite at 'em. And at half-past eight to-night you call for 'em and bring 'em here, handin' up the card he'd written on.
One day he started back at seeing a strangely familiar face present itself at the pay window. "Oh, yer needn't be scart, Job, because yer old pard's got a job in the Yellow Jacket as well as yer." It was Dan's voice. "Must be mighty nice in there handin' out the boodle to us poor, hard-worked laborers; mighty easy to tuck a little of it in yer pocket now and then."
'It don't matter about my hat and shoes, says she, 'but they wouldn't know me in such duds. Then, handin' me the bundle, she said, 'For twenty-five cents you can get that bag mended just as good as new, so you can take it, and it will save us a dollar and a half. 'No, you don't, says I, for I'd had enough of her stinginess.
"'Wa'al, he says, 'fust, you step in an' tell her I'm here an' want to see her, and ast her if she won't come right along; an' then you go down to my office an' have these things sent up; an' then, he says, 'you go down town an' send this' handin' me a note that he'd wrote an' put in an envelope 'up to the hospital better send it up with a hack, or, better yet, go yourself, he says, 'an' hurry.
"He'd git five thousand fer handin' me over to Waldstricker, alive," replied Andy, solemnly. "I wouldn't a gone up if 't 'adn't been fer him. He can lie faster'n a horse can trot." Heaving a deep sigh, Orn turned to his daughter. "What we goin' to do with my pal, Tess?" he asked.
They were both smoking, and Garstaing was doing the talking. At all times Steve preferred that his visitors should do most of the talking. "I guessed I best come right along," he said, regarding the other closely. "You see, I'll be handin' out Treaty Money to the darn neches to-morrow morning. It'll take me best part of the day."
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