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I'll get 'm maybe in the third or fourth round you know, time 'm in a rush an' hand it to 'm just as easy. It's a lead-pipe cinch, I tell you. Honest to God, Saxon, it's a shame to take the money." "But I hate to think of you all battered up," she temporized. "If I didn't love you so, it might be different. And then, too, you might get hurt."
"Is to find the other railroad-ticket," finished Leverage dryly. "Which isn't any lead-pipe cinch, I'd say!" Carroll gazed intently upon the face of the dead man. There was a half quizzical light in the detective's eyes as he spoke, apparently to no one. "I've often thought," he said, "in a case like this, how much simpler things would be if the murdered man could talk."
Bert Wainwright's voice came down the pipe, sounding megaphonically close. "Heavens!" Graham sighed with relief; for he had startled and clutched Paula's arm. "That's the time I got my fright. The little maiden is avenged. Also, at last, I know what a lead-pipe cinch is." "And it's time we started for the outer world," she suggested. "It's not the coziest gossiping place in the world.
In very horror those lead-pipe legs of Johnnie's almost gave way beneath him, so that he clung to the table for support. "Oh!" he breathed. But Mr. Perkins was smiling. "The cat brought me in just before he brought you in," he answered quietly. The reply wrought an instant and startling change in Big Tom. The smile went from the bloodshot eyes, giving place to that white flash of rage.
"Certain of that, Jimmie?" "Yep, it's a lead-pipe cinch. Saw him in the engine room talking to Mr. Fleming. When he seen me Mr. Fleming called me to come down. But not for Jimmie. He took a swift hike up the stairs." The boy was all excitement. For that matter so was I, though I concealed it better.
As a youngster these attacks had not been infrequent, usually after a fit of crying. The first, in fact, had followed the burning of the cat; a duet of twin spasms then, howled into Sara's apron, And once after he had fished an exhausted comrade out of an ice hole in Bronx Park. They had followed the lead-pipe affairs and the Chinese-laundry episode with dreadful inevitability.
They were just at the head of the steps, and the Tout was saying to the fat expostulator: "I could have put you next; I steered a big bettor on he won a thousand over the mare. I saw Boston's betting man havin' an old-time play, an' I knew it was a lead-pipe cinch.
There'll be openings enough to put down the money later on in the Derby, if the mare pans out well." Andy Dixon was first of all 'a careful man. "There are risks enough in racin' without lookin' for them," he said. "When one has got an absolute lead-pipe cinch, it's two to one against its coming off." That was another of his conservative aphorisms.
But I was not going to let him know that to understand the circular I should have to take it away quietly to my desk in Nassau Street, and spend an hour with it alone." "'What is your opinion of Petunia Water sixes? he inquired." "'They are a lead-pipe cinch, I immediately answered; and he slapped me on the knee." "'That's what I think! he cried. 'Anyhow, I have taken 20,000 for mother.
If the reader, having tried the lead-pipe experiment above, will next hammer the tube hexagonal and try the plug again, he will find the same result; but if he will try it with a round bore grooved, and with a plug fitting the grooves, he will see that the pressure is against the wall of the groove, and acts at right angles to the radius of the bore, having only a tendency to twist the barrel in order to straighten the grooves, a tendency which the barrel meets in the direction of its greatest stability.
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