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Won't you go to work, Lorna, and wait for me?" Her smile had a little mockery in it now perhaps to hide from him how deeply she was moved. "No matter what else I did, I'd not wait for you, Johnny. You'd never come. You're not a Johnny-on-the-spot." "You think I'm weak don't you?" he said. Then, as she did not answer, "Well, I am. But I love you, all the same."
Then he said good-by and went inside to take his shower. He found his team-mates discussing the game in detail and bestowing praise on Neil Durant. "Well, cap'n, old scout," Ned Stillson was saying, as Teeny-bits came clamping in, "you sure were Johnny-on-the-spot."
Another is, how this Brice, did you say his name is? happened to be Johnny-on-the-spot when the other chap tried to knife me. And how you happen to know him by name. He's dressed more like a day-laborer than like any one you'd be likely to meet .... But all that can wait. The thing now is to find how badly he's hurt."
Well, I can't make him prompt at school; but he'll be Johnny-on-the-spot if you say so. My soul and body, he'll do anything for you! He's saved up all his prayer money and bought a lot of chewing gum for you." "Great Scott!" said Maurice, appalled at the experimental obligations which his son's gift might involve.
These here natural braces don't have to have a thing done. They're Johnny-on-the-spot all the time. Why, the Porchugeeze has got us skinned a mile. Come on, I'll show you." Billy, with city notions of trespass, betrayed perturbation at the freedom they were making of the little farm. "Oh, it's all right, as long as you don't step on nothin'," the lineman reassured him.
First they throwed one on the rocks, an' then they throwed one up in the tall grass, one up an' one down. There's a whole pile of 'em that ain't broke at all. An' the little dark fellow says, "A good job, Gus. We'll be Johnny-on-the-spot as soon as it gets dark." "Kirke was standing over him, his eyes bright, his hands clenched. 'On the level? he whispered.
When they were ready, it would be easy enough, to suddenly discover that a desert valley had, by some stupid error, been included in a Forest Reserve, the boundaries would be readjusted immediately, the valley once more thrown open for entry and dummy entrymen, Johnny-on-the-spot, to file on the land for the water company!
I must be patient. I must wait my time. Captain Bassett is announced. He is informed of what has 'appened. He is distressed. He has the air as if he, too, would endeavour to be gentle, sympathetic. But I am Johnny-on-the-spot. I stay till he 'as gone. Next day again it is 'Puss, puss! Again the butler has explored under the furniture with the umbrella. Again Miss Marion is distressed.
Blind-folded each other, and took turn about blinding up the trail. No one of them can go get the loot without the rest. When they want it, every one of these memoranda must be Johnny-on-the-spot before they can dig up the mazuma. No wonder Wolf Leroy searched so thorough for this bit of paper.
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