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Updated: June 18, 2025
Even when she married "Hard-Luck" Jim Mallaby she had always seemed to regard Code Schofield as the one man in Freekirk Head. But Jim, being too busy with his strange affairs, had not noticed. Jim it was who, after twenty years of horrible poverty and ill-luck, had caught the largest halibut ever taken off the Banks and made thousands of dollars exhibiting it alive.
"We'll let sis in, too," exclaimed her brother, generously, "and ma could use a little more in her business. She's sitting up nights to corner all the Amalgamated Hard-luck on the island. We'll pool issue, and say, we'll make those Federal Oil pikers think we've gnawed a corner off the subtreasury. I'll put an order in for twenty thousand more shares to-morrow among the three stocks.
Thorn's life for the next few years was the whole series of hard-luck parables, with a few chapters from Job thrown in, and then one day he met old Jim. He seemed to cotton to Thorn from the jump. Explained to him that there was nothing in this digging gopher holes in the solid rock and eating Chinaman's grub for the sake of making niggers' wages.
Gents, it ain't in the deck! An' tharupon Dan seals his views by demandin' of Black Jack the bottle with glasses all 'round. "'When it comes to that, Boggs, says Colonel Sterett, as he does Dan honour in four fingers of Valley Tan, 'an' talkin' of luck, I'm yere to offer odds that the most poignant hard-luck story on the list is the story of Injuns as a race.
Some vagrant soldier, possibly, or some "hard-luck outfit" of prospectors, probably, had come upon him sleeping, and had made way with his few valuables. Two soldiers had been down stream, fishing for what they called Tonto trout, but they were looked up instantly and proved to be men above suspicion. Two prospectors had been at Hart's, nooning, and had ridden off down stream toward three o'clock.
But Herron's shrewd, experienced eyes penetrated the sham. He had intended to be cold. Scenting a "hard-luck yarn" and a "touch" he lowered his temperature to the point at which conversation is ice-beset and confidences are frozen tight. Fanshaw's nerve deserted him. "Herron," he said, dropping his prosperous pose, "I want to get a divorce and I want to punish Dumont."
You moved it since I was here." "I'll have 'im put back," laughed the other. "Say! It's a grand thing to be rich, ain't it?" "I don' know, I ain' never try it." "Well, it is; and now that I've arrived, I'm goin' to change my ways complete. No more extravagance in mine I'll never lend another cent." "Wat's dat?" ejaculated Doret, in amazement. "No more hard-luck stories and 'hurry-ups' for mine.
"That " Susan said quietly, still marking the hot cement, "will keep me from ever ever being happy, Bill " Her voice thickened, and she stopped speaking. "I don't look at that whole episode as you do, Sue," Billy said gruffly after a moment's embarrassed silence. "I don't believe chance controls those things. I often think of it when some man comes to me with a hard-luck story.
Why should I not call the men here and remind them of all that?" "I do not believe you will. They know I was locked in the storeroom. The door the lock " "You could have locked yourself in." "You do not know what you are saying!" But I had angered her, and she went on cruelly: "Who are you, anyhow? You are not a sailor. You came here and were taken on because you told a hard-luck story.
If you or me should get sick or something." "You ain't all wrong, girl." "You'd give the shirt off your back, Blutch; that's why we can't ever have a nest-egg as long as you're playin' stakes. There's too many hard-luck stories lying around loose in the gamblin' game." "The next big haul I make I'm going to get out, girl, so help me!" "Blutch!" "I mean it. We'll buy a chicken-farm."
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