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The detective of the successful novel resembles the Deity in his attributes of ubiquity and omniscience. In whatever city his functions are exercised we may be sure that he knows every man-Jack of the criminal classes, their past and present history, their occupation and their residence.
As only five men could crowd round a stove at a time, one's chances were rather slim in the dense mob, every man-jack of whom was waiting to slip into the first vacant place that offered. We slept in a row along the wall, with our heads to it. Overhead a broad shelf supported a similar row of men. Above them were the windows.
Then the great thing to mind is, not for any of our fellers to be nervous; so before starting we'll one and all come to my house and have a rasher of bacon; then every man-jack het a pint of cider into his inside; then we'll warm up an extra drop wi' some mead and a bit of ginger; every one take a thimbleful just a glimmer of a drop, mind ye, no more, to finish off his inner man and march off to Pa'son Mayble.
"I'm afraid your blood-thirstiness won't be gratified this time," answered the first speaker. "The General means to surprise them and take every man-jack of them prisoner before they're fairly waked up. We shall be back to breakfast to receive your congratulations, Miss Edwards." But Miss Edwards had left the room.
Me and my friends not a big bunch, but every man-jack of 'em to be a regular person are goin' to start from Tucson, or Douglas, and hug the Mexican border west across the desert, ridin' light and fast; you're to go south with water; and Cobre is to be none the wiser. Here, I'll make you a map." He traced the map in the sand. "Here's the railroad, and Mohawk; here's your camp on the Gila.
Drake, that I was always on your side, and it's better to come to the point; there's a strong party of us in the church, sir, that would like to have you back, and we was thinking if you would condescend to help us, now as you're so well able to, sir, toward a new chapel, now as you have the means, as well as the will, to do God service, sir, what with the chapel-building society, and every man-jack of us setting our shoulder to the wheel, and we should all do our very best, we should get a nice, new, I won't say showy, but attractive that's the word, attractive place not gaudy, you know, I never would give in to that, but ornamental too and in a word, attractive that's it a place to which the people would be drawn by the look of it outside, and kep' by the look of it inside a place as would make the people of Glaston say, 'Come, and let us go up to the house of the Lord, if, with your help, sir, we had such a place, then perhaps you would condescend to take the reins again, sir, and we should then pay Mr.
The mists had receded to belts and wisps of cloud against the forests. Waters tumbling wind-blown from the ledges were swelling to a chorus. Little cross bills and jays that had come round the breakfast camp still followed the pack train. "As this is off y'r National Forests, A suppose y' couldn't have jumped into the bunch an' arrested every man-jack of 'em?"
Newman pushed through our crowd until he was fairly into the port foc'sle, and there he stood, filling the doorway, and effectually blocking any attempt on the part of those behind him to rush the room. Well, Newman looked down at the mate, and he commenced to chuckle very softly to himself. After a moment we began to chuckle too, every man-jack of us.
Lawrence about the beginnin' o' winter, and before they got to a part o' the coast where there was a house belongin' to the fur-traders, ivery man-jack o' them was frost-bit more or less, they wor.
"Look here," he demanded of the Carrolls, "why all this interest about our being in the Basin? Every man-jack asks me. What's the point?" Old man Carroll stroked his long beard. "Do they so?" he drawled comfortably. "Well, I reckon little things make news, as they say, when you're in a wild country.
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