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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Crawled right in, and we got back here in a jiffy; but you see it was no use when that jinx is on my trail, meanin' to loco everything I do. Now, I reckon if it'd been any other feller in the bunch, the critter'd just stood its ground, and I'd be vindicated. But me I'm hoodooed of late, and can't do a thing straight."
"There is such things as hoodooed ships, Miss Bostwick, just like there is hoodooed folks," he said hoarsely, without seeming to notice her shrinking from him and her changed countenance. "Oh! Is there?" she inquired faintly. "Surest thing you know," acclaimed the old seaman with his most impressive manner.
His gaze showed him the boyish foreman doubled up with laughter; also the sweep of a white skirt descending from the piazza. "Now, ain't that hoodooed luck?" the aggrieved rider of the Triangle Bar outfit demanded of himself, "I made my getaway about three shakes too soon, by gum!" Her foreman was in the throes of mirth when Helen Messiter reached him. "Include me in the joke," she suggested.
"I did not wait to see them. My cab was ahead of theirs. What shall we do?" "Notify the police; it's all we can do. They cost me an even ten thousand, Kitty. And I told you not to wear them on a night like this. I'm discouraged. I want to get out of this blasted country. I'm hoodooed." Killigrew walked the floor. He took out a cigar, eyed it thoughtfully, and returned it to his pocket.
"What in the fiend's name is the matter with that infernal Quickstep? This is the third suit we've had in two years. Skinner, what is wrong with that steam schooner?" "She must be hoodooed, Mr. Ricks." "Another seaman injured by being hit with a cargo block or having a piece of eight-by-eight drop on his foot, I suppose." "Not this time, Mr. Ricks.
Horry grinned wryly upon Orion. "How 'bout this schooner being hoodooed?" he rumbled in his deep bass. "Lemme tell you, boy, I'd sail to ary end o' the world with that gal for mascot. This won't be no Jonah ship while she's aboard." "Hi golly! Tunis Latham has all the luck," whined Orion. "Taking her down to live with Cap'n Ball and Prudence! Huh! She won't live with 'em long."
Next she danced around a pine, then danced into her little green inclosure. From which presently she sent out the most doleful moans. "Aww! What a shame!" burst out Anson. "Thet fine, healthy, nervy kid! Clean gone! Daffy! Crazy 'n a bedbug!" "Shore it's a shame," protested Wilson. "But it's wuss for us. Lord! if we was hoodooed before, what will we be now? Didn't I tell you, Snake Anson?
He was satisfied now that from the moment he transferred the strap-hanger's bill-book to his own pocket he had been hoodooed. Only a jinx of the most malevolent type could have prompted his hurried exit from a train to dodge an imaginary "bull." Only the blackest of evil spirits could be responsible for this involuntary kidnaping! "Mate um wun! Mate um 'ippity stip!"
Orion grunted pessimistically. Little in this world ever just suited Orion. "She's a hoodooed packet. I said it from the first," he muttered to Horry. "You know well enough what she was before they gave her a lick of paint and a new name. We'll all pay high yet for sailin' in her." "I wouldn't let Cap'n Tunis hear me say that 'nless I was seekin' a new berth," rejoined the old mariner.
And then Helen had her ears filled with a rapid-fire account of running horses and Riggs and outlaws and Beasley called boldly to his teeth, and a long ride and an outlaw who was a hero a fight with Riggs blood and death another long ride a wild camp in black woods night lonely, ghostly sounds and day again plot a great actress lost to the world Ophelia Snakes and Ansons hoodooed outlaws mournful moans and terrible cries cougar stampede fight and shots, more blood and death Wilson hero another Tom Carmichael fallen in love with outlaw gun-fighter if black night and Dale and horse and rides and starved and, "Oh, Nell, he WAS from Texas!"
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