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The line of coast had already sunk enough to permit the faint silhouette of a trail of smoke to define the horizon line of sky. "Steamer goin' in, eh?" "Yes. D'ye see it might be too hot, in there!" "Then the jig's up?" "No. Suthin's to be done north of St. Lucas. Hush!" He made a gesture of silence, although the conversation, since he had joined them, had been carried on in a continuous whisper.
I guess the jig's all up with me, boys," said the man, with a look of sheer disgust on his face. "I've had a little run for my money, but the stone jug seems to be yawning for me. I was a fool to bother with the kid, it seems; but when the scheme came to me at first I thought it too fine to drop. Here's where I get paid for being a silly gump. What do you want me to do, boys?
"We have got to get out of this neighborhood in railroad time or the jig's up," he added. "Well, I'm willing." It did not take long to catch up to the houseboat, which was drifting down the river in the fashion it had pursued before being towed by the Lunch. Flapp and Hamp Gouch were waiting impatiently on the deck. "Got 'em?" asked Lew Flapp.
"If you had known I was your foreman an' had mixed with me I'd 'a' killed you a few moments ago. The very next time you cross me I'll kill you. I sleep light when I do sleep. Are you goin' to cook my supper?" "Yes, you blasted rattler," sez he, with a grin, "you're the killin' kind an' you're the killin' age, but I know when the jig's up.
"You're off your base, you rube. Let go my arm!" "None of that now," said the detective. "I've got your picture here. The jig's up, young feller. It's no " "My picture?" ejaculated Dick in surprise. "Let's have a look at it. I never had my picture taken in my life." The man held out a small solar print of a daguerreotype that David Jenison sat for the year before at college.
As he faced the rear a horseman rounded the turn and the fugitive, wheeling, dashed for the stolen horse forty yards away, where his rifle lay in its saddle sheath. But an angry command and the sharp hum of a bullet fired in front of him checked his flight and he stopped short and swore. "I reckon the jig's up," remarked Mr. Cassidy, balancing the up-raised Colt with nicety and indifference.
And from his frequent glances northward, through the trees, he doubtless feared some interruption, or dreaded the arrival of an enemy that might inflict an ample retaliation. During a long pause, while the Indians seemed to hesitate, and the old crafty savage drew his steel tomahawk from his belt, Sneak sighed deeply, and said, in rather mournful tones "The jig's up with us, Joe.
"Jig's up pretty definitely, don't you think?" said Adams, with a glance around at the idle track force huddling for shelter under the lee of the flats and the octopod. Winton shook his head and groaned. "I'm a ruined man, Morty." Adams found his cigarette case. "I guess that's so," he said quite heartlessly. Then: "Hello! what is our friend the enemy up to now?"
There were fifteen of them, each as speedy and as easily handled as his own craft; and already, apprised by the signaled instructions from ahead, they were spreading out into a fan-like formation, and coming on, nearly abreast. "The jig's up, chief," he called through a tube to the engineer. "We'll get forty feet down until the mosquitoes get by.
"Begad, excellency, I like your spirit. If it's my say-so, you will live to be a hundred. Come the cards are against you. Some other day they may fall more pat for you. But the jig's up now." "I am very much of your opinion, sir," agreed Megales. "Then why not make terms?" "Such as " "Your life and your friends' lives against a graceful capitulation." "Our lives as prisoners or as free men?"
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