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It won't help him, but it'll make me feel a lot better.... You will catch him, won't you?" Rand nodded. "I don't know whether he'll ever go to trial and be convicted," he said. "I don't think he will. But you can take my word for it; he won't get away with it. Tomorrow, I think the lid's going to blow off. Maybe you'd better be away from home when it does.
"Very well, then the lid's off to you and remember you asked for the rummage, Rose Mary," answered Everett in a tone as light as hers. Then suddenly he rose and stood tall and straight in front of her, looking down into her upraised eyes in the dusk. "You don't know, do you, you rose woman you, what a man's life can hold of nothingness?
"I hear you are going home next week," she said, resting her crossed arms on the foot of his bed. "Going to be good and take care of yourself?" "Not on your life!" cried Mac, gaily, searching under his pillow for his cigarette case. "The lid's been on for a month, and it's coming off with a bang. I intend to shoot the first person that mentions health to me." "Fire away then," said Nance. "I'm it.
If I didn't have it, I " "I've seen a few of them in that sort of jim-jams," said Clancy malevolently. "You can't tell me anything about it. If you appreciate it, that's enough it's up to you. You heard what I said. If you're looking for that particular kind of hell, go to it. Only don't kid yourself. When I pass the word to put the screws on, the lid's down for keeps. Well, what's the answer?
"I donno, they say the lid's down pretty tight." "Aw, shucks!" sneered Dunc. "Bet I could get all I wanted." Just then the door opened and Abijah Gage walked in, with a toothless grin all around. "Hello, Bi, get tanked up, did yeh?" greeted the chief. "Well, naow, an' ef I did, what's that to you?" responded Bi, slapping the chief's broad shoulder with a folded newspaper he carried.
You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain can't get in. 'But the things can get OUT, Alice gently remarked. 'Do you know the lid's open? 'I didn't know it, the Knight said, a shade of vexation passing over his face. 'Then all the things must have fallen out!
Rusk was growing more and more afraid of this lean figure sheathed in shining black cloth, whose eyes glittered with a horrible sort of cunning, and whose long brown fingers groped before him, as if indicating the way by guess. 'But, of course, the lid's not on; you've not screwed him down, hey? 'No, sir. 'That's well. I must look on the face as I pray. He is in his place; I here on earth.
He took off his hat and threw it high in the air and opened his arms wide and emitted a whoop of sheer joy and relief. "Welcome home! Home!" She clung to him. "Oh, Hosey, isn't it wonderful? How big it looks! Huge!" "Land, yes." He strode from hall to dining room, from kitchen to library. "I know how a jack-in-the-box feels when the lid's opened. No wonder it grins and throws out its arms."
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