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Updated: June 3, 2025
Did I throw away my chances in declining the liberal proposal of Mr. Cragg? The reader will be able to judge from the following pages. After my visit to Liverpool I passed on to Manchester. I was fortunate in having introductions to some of the leading men there, to John Kennedy, William Fairbairn, the Grant Brothers, and lastly, to that most admirable man, Benjamin Hick, engineer, Bolton.
He locked the clear plastic airtight covering of the jet boat and began flicking at the control buttons. "Strap in, you Venusian hick. Here we go!" Roger shoved a lever at his side, making the jet-boat deck airtight from the rest of the Polaris, and then, by pressing a button on the simple control board, a section of the Polaris' hull slipped back, exposing them to empty space.
"I can't say the word, Hick Holt, in presence o' the girls to make wives to the Mormon Prophet that's what he intended wi' both o' 'em." The scream that, like the neigh of an angry horse, burst from the lips of the squatter, drowned the last words of Wingrove's speech; and simultaneously the report of a rifle pealed upon the air.
Near as I can make out he's a narrow-chested, loose-jawed young hick of 19 or 20 and costumed a good deal like a village sport. You know slit coat pockets, a high turn-up to his trousers, bunion-toed shoes, and a necktie that must have been designed by a wall-paper artist who'd been shell-shocked. On his left arm he has a basket partly covered by a napkin.
"Back to the country, Jane, an' practice on the farm wagon," he snarled out of one corner of his mouth. "Yuh drive like a hick, yuh do." "Talk civil to a woman," Thompson snapped back at him, "or keep your mouth shut." The chauffeur bestowed upon him a rancorous glare. His sharp, ferret eyes gleamed. Then he deliberately spat upon the impeccably shining red hood of Sophie's roadster.
But I reckon 'twar the way in which it war asked that offended you; an' on that account your answer war jest as it should a been." "To what question to you refer?" "To your bisness out here wi' Hick Holt. I don't want to know it, out o' any curiosity o' my own that's sartin, stranger." "You are welcome to know all about it.
"Not yet adzactly. I've got a score to settle wi' the skunk. The man who'd plot that way agin another, hain't ought to live. You may let him off, Hick Holt, but I won't; nor wud you eyther, I reck'n, if you knew " "Knew what!" interrupted the squatter. "What he intended for your daughter." "He air my daughter's husband," rejoined Holt, in a tone that betokened a mixture of bitterness and shame.
"Say," expostulated Mr. Peaney, "do you expect me to hand over five thousand to that hick? He might walk off with it." "He might walk off with the hotel.... I told you you hadn't any nerve.... Why, give that fat man a taste of easy money and you couldn't drive him away.
And I don't quite get it that way." Then he swore. "Hank Brown! That hick after having her choice of town boys, her taking up with that Keystone yap! No, sir, that don't get by with me." But when he had gone a little farther he stopped and looked blackly down toward the Basin. A swift, hateful vision of the two figures walking close together up that slope struck him like a slap in the face.
They can stand right up here and tell me to my face that I'm a galoot and a liar and a hick! Only if they do if they do! don't faint with surprise if some of those rum-dumm liars get one good swift poke from Mike, with all the kick of God's Flaming Righteousness behind the wallop! Well, come on, folks! Who says it? Who says Mike Monday is a fourflush and a yahoo? Huh?
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