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Updated: May 27, 2025
Through the half-open door was seen Hoppy's evil, watchful, and cunning face, who, having followed the strangers, unknown to them, was narrowly watching and listening attentively. "What do you want?" challenged the lapidary, roughly, disgusted with the rudeness of the two men. "Jerome Morel," responded Bourdin. "I am he." "Working jeweler?" "The same." "Are you quite sure?"
"You say they know that you got away, Hoppy?" he asked. "All right Lanky!" he shouted. "Lanky!" "All right, Buck!" and Lanky Smith roughly pushed his way through the crowd to his foreman's side. "Here I am." "Take Skinny and Pete with you, an' a lead horse apiece. Strike straight for Powers' old ranch house. Them Injuns'll have pickets out looking for Hoppy's friends.
'Twouldn't though; Labe would take to drinkin' bay rum or Florida water or somethin', same as Hoppy Rogers done when he was alive. Jim Young says he went into Hoppy's barber-shop once and there was Hoppy with a bottle of a new kind of hair-tonic in his hand. 'Drummer that was here left it for a sample, says Hoppy. 'Wanted me to try it and, if I liked it, he cal'lated maybe I'd buy some.
There had been an aloof serenity about his life within the bulging front of the paternal residence with its ancient glass window panes faintly tinged with blue, just as the blood in the Pepperill veins was also faintly tinged with the same color his unimpeachable social position at Hoppy's and later on at Harvard which he pronounced Haavaad and the profound respect in which he was held at the law school in Cambridge, that gave Mr.
No one knew the cause for Hoppy's unusual state of mind, although there were many conjectures, and they covered the field rather thoroughly; but they did not strike on the cause.
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