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The tenth was Jeremiah and the most reckless hustler at the track refused to consider the black horse as a contender for anything but sanguinary honours. "Him? Nix! Didn't you hear about him? Why, he bled this morning in his workout! No chance!"
There was enough wind to move the trawls, but the lonely procession did not travel as on that tremendous night when Lewis first learnt what a regular hustler was like. All the days that followed went by pleasantly enough, though Ferrier could not help chafing.
"You have no outfit." "I've got a job. Behold your nephew, Christopher Smoke Bellew! He's got a job at a hundred and fifty per month and grub. He's going down to Dawson with a couple of dudes and another gentleman's man camp-cook, boatman, and general all-around hustler. And O'Hara and the Billow can go to hell. Good-bye." But John Bellew was dazed, and could only mutter: "I don't understand."
Rent-day, announced Pugsy, fell on the last day of the month. "I rubbered around," he said, "and did de sleut' act, and I finds t'ings out. Dere's a feller comes round 'bout supper time dat day, an' den it's up to de fam'lies what lives in de tenements to dig down into deir jeans fer de stuff, or out dey goes dat same night." "Evidently a hustler, our nameless friend," said Psmith.
"Eh, but yon's a fine woman!" said an old farmer of the humbler sort to his neighbour. "Yo'll not tell me she's a land lassie?" "Noa, noa; she's the new farmer at Great End a proud body, they say, an' a great hustler! The men say she's allus at 'em. But they don't mind her neither. She treats 'em well. Them's her two land girls walking beside."
"Well, Blake is a college-educated man and a hustler. He's bound to get on if I back him. If Blake weren't likely enough, there's plenty more in Chicago like me smart business men who want a handsome young wife." "Perhaps we have had enough of Stuart, Hodgson, and Blake. There are other careers in the world outside Chicago." "Tut, tut! I ain't going to fight here all day. What's the figure?
"Yes, and has for some years; but I must confess I never knew Grogan was a woman until I found her on the dock a few weeks ago, handling a cargo. She works like a machine. How long has she been a widow?" "Well, come to think of it, I don't know that she is a widow. There's some mystery about the old man, but I never knew what. But that don't count; she's good enough as she is, and a hustler, too."
"It is only a week since I was up here and during that time he has actually made this village, the streets, the sidewalks and if that is not actually a system of water pipes." "Some hustler, as you say, Miss Nora, eh, what?" said Tom. "Wonderful," replied Nora; "he is wonderful." Jack glanced at the girl beside him.
As a matter of fact, a kind fate had taken "his job" in hand for him some time before, and was in a fair way to turn out a pretty good one too. But Neil Stewart made up his mind to boost Old Lady Fate along a little, and his attempts at so doing came pretty near upsetting her equilibrium; she was not inclined to be hustled, and Neil Stewart was nothing if not a hustler, once he got under way.
She did what any other woman would have done sought relief in a wholesome tide of unreasonable tears, and her last words, murmured to herself before slumber, capitulating, came softly to woo her, were "He has forgotten." The manager of the Rancho de las Sombras was no dilettante. He was a "hustler."
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