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Updated: May 21, 2025
You must know the schooner from her keel up by this time, and ought to be able to say now that you are willing to take luck's chances in her." "Ay, ay, sir; that's all true enough, so far as the craft is concerned.
Nice bunch of useless expense, I must say, when I've been chasing nickels off the expense account of this company and sitting up nights nursing profits! We'll have to cut salaries now, to break even on this fluke. I've left the payroll alone so far. That's the worst of a break like this. The whole company has got to pay for every blunder from now on." Luck's eyes hardened while he listened.
"Can't they stay on with the Acme? From what I hear, the Acme's Western Company is not large at best." "They can stay, yes. But they won't. The whole bunch gave in their two weeks' notice this morning." There was a grim satisfaction in Luck's tone. "Left when you did, I suppose?" "That's just exactly what they did. I told them they better stay, and they nearly lynched me for it."
"Luck's again' ye, cap'n," said Case, skilfully shaking the ivory cubes. "Hain't I got eyes?" growled the outlaw. Steadily his pile of gold diminished, and darker grew his face. "Cap'n, I'm a bad wind to draw," Case rejoined, drinking again from the flask. His naturally red face had become livid, his skin moist, and his eyes wild with excitement. "Hullo!
Speed-the-Plough lurched round on his elbow and regarded him indifferently. "D'ye call that doctrin'? He bean't al'ays, or I shoo'n't be scrapin' my heels wi' nothin' to do, and, what's warse, nothin' to eat. Why, look heer. Luck's luck, and bad luck's the con-trary. Varmer Bollop, t'other day, has's rick burnt down. Next night his gran'ry's burnt. What do he tak' and go and do?
I had one, but I broke it. All my luck's left me since then. Are you superstitious?" "Not in the least! I keep this for associations and a toy. If I could bring out a play on Friday the thirteenth " "If you're not superstitious, there's no excuse for not giving it to me." She tossed the horse-shoe into the air and caught it neatly with her right hand.
I observed this to Cross, who replied, "Then, sir, all we have to do now is to try our rate of sailing with them, and if we are faster than they are we have not much to fear unless we lose a spar, indeed; but luck's all, Mr Keene. The schooner has more sail on her than we have; shall we set exactly the same?"
"No; I'm too happy where I am. Uncle John is awfully good to me. He couldn't be kinder if I were his own son." "So you're content at last to stay at home and take what's given you?" "Yes; I think I've settled down at last. Dear old Val said that the lane would turn some time, and so it has. My luck's changed." "I think I'd put it down to something better than that," said Queen Mab, smiling.
This disclosure at once made Pao-yue quite exuberant, and stamping his feet he smiled. "How lucky! I'm in luck's way!" he exclaimed. "In very truth your reputation is no idle report. But to-day is our first meeting, and what shall I do?" After some thought, he produced a fan from his sleeve, and, unloosening one of the jade pendants, he handed it to Ch'i Kuan. "This is a mere trifle," he said.
Once the fish are landed, your luck's as good as mine." "Do they always follow that rule?" "The man that broke it wouldn't find company very easily, hereabouts, next time he wanted to go a-fishing. No, nor for any thing else. Nobody'd boat with him." "Well, if it's the regular thing," said Ford hesitatingly. "But I'll tell who really caught 'em." "Oh, some of yours are right good ones!
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