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"In the years I've lived with Hilary Vane I've seen enough of politicians, goodness knows. I never want to see another." "If Austen was governor, we'd change some of that. But mind, Euphrasia, this is a secret," said Tom, raising a warning finger. "If Austen hears about it now, the jig's up." Euphrasia considered and thawed a little.
Hand," he exclaimed, wearily, "I've done all I can. Hull and I have kept the market fairly stable so far. You saw what happened between ten and eleven this morning. The jig's up. We've borrowed our last dollar and hypothecated our last share. My personal fortune has gone into the balance, and so has Hull's. Some one of the outside stockholders, or all of them, are cutting the ground from under us.
"Your chance will soon come," replied the Russian with an evil leer on the fourth day. "He will be here the day after to-morrow. He will be able to make you talk." "If he's telling the truth, the jig's about up," said Dr. Bird when the Russian had left. "I don't fancy that Saranoff will show us much mercy when he finds out what we've attempted to do."
"The jig's up here, boys," announced Van Horn, as the fire burned down. "The two biggest thieves on the range are accounted for. It's a good job. If I guess right you'll find the Dutchman in the fire. Yankee Robinson's next. He won't put up much of a fight, but the hardest man to get is still ahead of us. This was a boy's job beside rounding up Abe Hawk.
Well, thinks I to myself, the jig's up: I sha'n't get any more liquor till I get out of the state." We all sat up till twelve o'clock that night, and I heard nothing but talk about the 'Juvinal Temperence Army, the 'Band of Hope, the 'Rising Generation, the 'Female Dorcas Temperance Society, 'The None Such, and I don't know how many other names they didn't have.
Not only did she lose her horror of him, but she gained an impersonal, detached interest in the workings of his mind. She looked on him not as a man but as a monster in the guise of a man. "Two deaths," she said quietly, "for your money. You work cheaply, Arizona." Jig's criticism seemed to pique him. "How come?" "Sandersen's death by your bullet, and mine when I die in the law.
Every mind's eye in that fear-sick group leaped afar and drew a picture of the thing that was happening then! At that very instant it was happening! "Oh!" groaned some one, half aloud. "It's after twelve," muttered another thickly. "The jig's up wid Dick, kids. Blacky ought to be here wid de extry.
A thousand bullets might splash harmlessly against that stone; and through crevices he commanded the whole sweep of the mountainside beneath them. The courage which had been growing in Sandersen, now reached a climax. Below him lay the helpless body of one prize from a distance apparently a sound and quiet sleeper, though Sandersen could see the terrified glint of Jig's eyes.
In his heart was the rage of defeat, in his soul the clamour of fear, not fear now of the dark strip of woods but of the whole world about him. He communed aloud. "The first thing to do is to pack. I've got to do that tonight. I'm through here. The jig's up. She means it. How the devil did she find out all this stuff?...But if I leave immediately it will look suspicious.
"I had an idea that war had been declared, so I brought my troop this way." The man made a movement as though about to run away, when Vance said: "Don't move, my friend, or you will be dropped." The detective advanced toward the fellow, who saw at once that resistance was in vain. The man was disarmed and a pair of handcuffs were slipped on his wrists. "The jig's up," muttered the smuggler.
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