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Updated: June 25, 2025
But any one who'd lamped me in that get-up, covered with oil and dust and dirt, would know that never again could I be a perfect lady. I'm a wiper, a greaser, a clodhopper, and, according to the sullen and brooding-eyed Ikkie, a bit of a slave-driver. And the odd part of it all is that I'm wringing a perverse sort of enjoyment out of the excitement and the novelty of the thing.
Sea-trout, is it! Ho, me bucko, says I when I lamped what he did with his first trout o' the burn this side the park by Godfrey! thinks I to myself, you're no white man at all! you're Boche. And it was so, McKay." "Seventy-six," corrected McKay gently. "That's better. It should become a habit." "Excuse me, Seventy-six; I'm Scotch-Irish way back. You're straight Scotch somewhere back.
The face, so far as it could be seen, was cadaverous and cruel, but half of it was concealed by a black vizor of velvet, through which lamped a pair of dark, unwinking eyes. The figure was there all day and every minute of the day, but I pegged stolidly on and gave as little heed as I could to it. But that night when I had got to bed, a development occurred.
I spotted you a good while back, and I knowed you'd lamped me. You was lookin' f'r me to bust in here to-night?" "I was. After you followed me to Cripple Creek and back I knew about what to expect." "And you was layin' f'r me alone? when you could 'a' had Collins and Nixon and half a dozen more if yous 'd squealed f'r 'em?"
"The Kid musta croaked him," said another. A laugh followed this evidently witty sally. "The guy probably lamped the swag an' died of heart failure," suggested another. The men were still laughing when the sound of a clanking chain echoed dismally from the cellar. Instantly silence fell upon the newcomers upon the first floor, followed by a "Wotinel's that?"
"This girl says a cop was up calling on her father. I met the guy. His name was Burke. Do you know him? Is he apt to queer anything?" Jimmie the Monk started. "Burke? What did he look like?" "Oh, pretty slick-looking gink. Well set-up looked like an army man, and gave me a hard stare when he lamped me. Had been in the hospital with the old fellow."
He never stopped going until he ducked in the Back Way, through the Grape Arbor, past the Woodshed, into the Kitchen of the old Homestead in which he first saw the Light of Day. Gusta nearly keeled when she lamped the long-lost Boss. "Get busy," he said.
All else was hushed, even to the giant chimneys in the steel works. One solitary furnace lamped the growing darkness. It was midsummer now in these marshy spots, and a very living nature breathed and pulsed, even in the puddles between the house and the avenue. "You can hear it in the night air," she murmured; "the joy that comes rising up from the earth, the joy of living.
"I know; I saw some of them." "Yes; and be the same token, there was one of them lamped yous off. I listened at her askin' one o' the men who you was; d'ye see?" Instantly I began to ransack my brain for the possibilities, and almost at once the talk on the train with Horace Barton, the wagon sales manager, flashed into the field of recollection. "Could you describe the woman for me?" I asked.
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