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Updated: June 20, 2025
He sought frantically to nerve himself for the supreme moment; but suppose he slipped, or suppose Joe became aware of his purpose one second too soon! "Keep over a bit, boss!" said the handy-man suddenly. "You are crowding me off the bridge!" "Oh, all right; is that better?" And Langham moved a step aside. "A whole lot," responded Joe gruffly.
Old Ned Brown, the cobbler, and general "handy-man" of the village, who, in days gone by, had often bound bats and done other odd jobs for "Miss Fenleigh's young nevies," laid down his awl, and gazed out of the window of his dingy little shop. A soldier was walking slowly down the road.
Gilmore and Joe Montgomery were distantly related, and while the latter never presumed on the score of this remote connection, the gambler himself tacitly admitted it by the help he now and then extended him, for Montgomery's means of subsistence were at the best precarious. If he had been called on to do so, he would have described himself as a handy-man, since he lived by the doing of odd jobs.
The only person he wasn't sworn friends with was the handy-man, and there came to be a legend current in the camp, that Kaviak's first attempt at spontaneously stringing a sentence under that roof was, "Me got no use for Potts." The best thing about Kaviak was that his was no craven soul.
The handy-man gave him a wide toothless grin, and his bashful blue eyes shifted, shuttle-wise, in their sockets until he was able to survey in full the splendor of the apartment. "Boss, you got a sure-enough well-dressed room; I never seen anything that could hold a candle to it, it's a bird!"
As the door-man disappeared Doc Woodruff glanced at his watch, then said with a smile: "You've been here seven minutes and a half just time for a lookout down stairs to telephone to the Auditorium and for the messenger to drive from there here. Goodrich is on the anxious-seat, all right." The messenger was Goodrich's handy-man, Judge Dufour.
"Wait!" said Langham imperiously. "What for?" demanded Montgomery. "The water made such a noise I couldn't talk to you out on the bridge," began Langham. "Well, I can't stop now, boss," said the handy-man, turning impatiently from him. "Yes, damn you you can and will!" and Langham raised his voice to give weight to his words. Montgomery rounded up his shoulders. "Don't you try that, boss!
Gilmore, who had just taken up his position at Marshall Langham's elbow. The gambler frowned and the handy-man instantly shifted his gaze.
Vesey lay watching the bay from her open windows, Binks, the old handy-man, moved about on the lawn outside, now and again exchanging remarks with his mistress as he passed and repassed. 'Muster Geoff, he've come, ma'am! said he presently, peering in the room. 'Oh, has he? Where is he, Binks? 'He've stepped round to the stable for Splutters and Shutters, ma'am, that's where he be.
Potts the handy-man was a talker, too, and a good second. But, once in camp, Mac the Miner was cock of the walk, in those first days, quoted "Caribou," and ordered everybody about to everybody's satisfaction. In a situation like this, the strongest lean on the man who has ever seen "anything like it" before. It was a comfort that anybody even thought he knew what to do under such new conditions.
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