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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Anyhow," said Usher, "Last-Trick Todd counts for a great deal in this rum affair." He stretched himself once more before the fire and continued talking in his expansive, radiantly explanatory style. "To begin with, on the face of it, there is no mystery here at all. It is not mysterious, it is not even odd, that a jailbird should take his gun to Pilgrim's Pond.
"That'll be all right, too," came readily enough from the jailbird. "Then good-bye until to-morrow. Don't follow me too closely." "Sure not," promised Tip. "Ye don't want anyone to know that I'm your friend, and I'm good at keepin' secrets." For two or three minutes young Scammon remained standing under the bare tree.
You don't want to eat in a jail, do you?" Her eyes widened with amazement at his outburst. She shrank from him. "Don't be afraid," he said. "I'm not going to touch you a jailbird! I'm not fooling myself. I know how you feel toward me. I can't help it. If you knew how I had been bottled up! I must speak to some one or go clean off my head. It makes me forget just to see you.
"We don't want any perjury here," cut in the lawyer, crisply, and touched a bell. The folding doors behind them flew open with a bang. As Fred started and whirled about he beheld a stranger advancing toward them, and that stranger was escorting -Tip Scammon. The stranger halted with his jailbird companion some five or six feet away. The stranger did not appear greatly concerned.
"That jailbird hasn't been away from her long enough for her to be weaned from her foolishness about him. He's safe away for seven years, and a whole lot can happen in that time even to that loyalty that women seem to set such store by. My friend Britt comes here into our family! That's understood. If Vona wants to eat off'n the mantelshelf in her room, well and good till she's tamed.
Stock-brokers are a painful subject, aren't they!" She turned to Nelly. "There's been an awful slump on the Stock Exchange today, and he got what was the word, Freddie?" "Nipped!" said Freddie with gloom. "Nipped!" "Nipped like the dickens!" "Nipped like the dickens!" Jill smiled at Nelly. "He had forgotten all about it in the excitement of being a jailbird, and I went and reminded him."
His crazed rage was shifted to this presumptuous person who had interfered and was manhandling him; at that moment the liveliest emotion in Britt was the mordant jealousy that he had been trying to stifle. It awoke and raged, finding real excuse for the venting of its rancor on the man who had made him jealous. "You damnation spawn of a jailbird "
At the same second Bud Lee's right hand, no longer lax, sped to the revolver gripped under the coat at his left arm-pit. It was a situation by no means new to the four walls of the Jailbird nor to the men concerned. It was a two-man fight, with as yet no call for the four friends of Quinnion to interfere.
The street grew steadily gloomier, filled with shadows. In front of the Jailbird the only light came from within and made scant war on the lurking darkness without. Lee's ears were greeted with the crazy whine of an old accordion, and with men's voices lifted in laughter.
Percival's gaze followed hers, and his heart smote him, for it was he who had demanded that the gruesome reminder be left standing as a warning to carrion. And he had laughed when Peter Snipe christened it "the scarecrow!" "Leave it standing, A. A.," Peter had said, "and you can bet your boots no jailbird will ever roost on it if he thinks twice.
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