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The sight of him and the row of glasses and hunches of bread and cheese behind the bar was irresistible. The skipper caught a departing customer by the coat and held him. "Do me a favour, old man," he said, heartily. "Wot d'ye want?" asked the other, suspiciously. "Tell that tall chap in there that a friend of his is waiting outside," said Flower, pointing to Joe.
"You lay a bet on it, bo. Something tells me that soul-saver will go bust on Eclipse Creek. I got a hunch that way." Mr. Hyde's seamy face wrinkled into a broad grin. "Well, I've more faith in your hunches than I used to have. You've been a good friend, Bill, and a square one." The speaker choked, then wrung his partner's hand. "I've cabled Alice to meet us.
I'd just like to know how the judge makes up his mind. It must be like markin' China lottery tickets. He plays hunches. He looks at a guy an' waits for a spot or a number to come into his head. How else could he give Johnny Black four years an' Cal Hutchins twenty years?
The belief in the possession by woman of an uncanny psychic power which made her the priestess and witch of other days, has crystallized into the modern concept of womanly intuition. In our times, women "get hunches," have "feelings in their bones," etc., about people, or about things which are going to happen.
WAS he my father?" Ellsworth started. "What do you mean?" Dave lifted an abstracted gaze from the Pullman carpet. "I hardly know what I mean, Judge. But you've had hunches, haven't you? Didn't you ever KNOW that something you thought was true wasn't true at all? Well, I never felt as if I had Frank Law's blood in me." "This is interesting!" Ellsworth stirred and leaned forward.
They usually came when he was broke for, like all prospectors, Warren found it highly inconvenient ever to be the possessor of a large sum of money for any length of time. He had been known to say to a friend: "I've got a hunch!" disappear, and in a week or two, return with a liberal amount of dust. Between hunches he worked at his trade.
At cards, dice, or wheels he had always had hunches and he had always won. That was why he had stopped gambling, years before, before anybody found out. He was that kind of a man. Apart from the matter of unearned increment, however, he always followed his hunches; but this one he did not like at all.
Then Ted related exactly how the thing happened, and of his talk with Desmond. "And they let that fellow Checkers get away," sighed Ted. "The chief says he's the most dangerous of them all, and warned me to look out for him. Bud, I've got a hunch." "Let her flicker. I'm kinder stuck on yer hunches; they pay dividends right erlong."
His hunches were seldom specific, so he didn't have any idea how or why she was important, but he was certain she was. That was part of the reason he'd called her his special assistant, and had her assigned quarters near his own. He looked up as Hobison entered. "Everything set, Dave?" "Yes, sir," Hobison replied. "And I had Communications call the Palace, your personal code.
I wonder you don't get killed with your violent ways." Ned made no reply but took his seat at the table, and fell to work upon the hunches of thick brown bread and butter. "I will tell you about it afterward, father," he said; "it really wasn't my fault." "I am sure I don't wish to hear the story of your quarrels and fighting, Edward," Mrs.
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