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What is popularly regarded as respectability is oft-times in reality if the truth were known merely stodginess and stupidity. I am compelled to admit that in my early days, before I had formed my affiliation with Gottlieb, I had different ambitions, although they were none the less worldly. Then I wanted to be a judge because I supposed a judge was the king-pin of the profession.
Garry listened in amazement. "Kenny," he said slowly, "you've roamed off before and gotten yourself into some extraordinary messes and I honestly thought that summer in China had taught you a lesson. But this tale of Adam Craig and the miser money is the king-pin of them all. You've absolutely got to house-clean that instinct for melodrama out of existence.
"Giant, you can be proud of such a haul," said Snap. "I guess he's the king-pin of all the pike in this lake." "Well, I am proud," answered Giant, with a grin. "Just the same, I don't relish being pulled overboard for any fish in the lake. He must weigh something, eh?" "Fifteen to twenty pounds, I guess," said Snap. "It's too bad we haven't a scales along."
"I know what I am talking about this time." "Let's hear your tale of woe." "Not yet. I only came to tell you that within three days I hope to introduce you to the king-pin the chief man the director of the whole business." "If you can do that you have accomplished one of the greatest detective feats of the age." "I will do it, sure.
"Curvilinear grace is all very well but " "Shut up!" said Sherrill viciously. "Have you ever met this king-pin I'm exploiting?" "I've seen him," said Car. "Once when he was riding up the mountain road to Houdania with a brilliant escort and one er other time. Think I told you I'd spent a month or so in a Houdanian monastery several years ago, didn't I, Dick?" "Yes," said Dick. "That's why I asked.
With this handicap removed there is little doubt that pineapple-growing will become a tempting industry. The vanilla bean, however, is king-pin of the list in the claim of profit to be derived from its culture. It is said that the yearly cost of raising the crop will be 94 pesos an acre, chiefly for manure and irrigation.
If he wasn't here he'd be logging, and taking his life in his hand every hour, with trees falling in the wrong direction, log jams occurring in the spring rise and the lumber jacks risking death in the effort to free the king-pin that holds the jam. Oh, no, Eli has no fault to find with the way you've treated him; indeed, he's had a snap, and knows it.
"Ah, si jeunesse...!" ejaculates the poet; but here jeunesse, by a doubling of forces, both pouvait and savait. Then Prochnow turned the canvas itself round toward Preciosa. "Does Mademoiselle recognise herself?" "It's you, Preciosa, to the life," said the daughter of Roscoe Orlando Gibbons. "Oh, Ig!" cried Little O'Grady, much moved, "you're the king-pin sure.
I guess perhaps Uncle Abel is in trouble or else " "You mean father's rich brother that lives out West? Billy Slocum told me about him once says he's a king-pin out there, owns a mine a mile deep and full of gold, keeps lots of fast horses, wins races all over the country. He must be great. You mean him? Why doesn't father ever speak of him?"
"To sign the papers." Again the woman's eyes glittered as she asked: "How did they learn about me?" "One of our old pals told them about you." "And why did you not tell me about this before?" "I have not had my first interview yet with the king-pin. He has been out West. He is to be in New York some day this week. You are to exhibit your skill and we will get a stake immediately."
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