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That was hard money! It was the first I ever earned!" Joe McCaskey's dark face was doubly unpleasant as he frowned down upon the youth. "Thinking about nothing except your coin, eh? Why don't you think about Jim? He did you a favor and 'most lost his life." "Oh, I'm sorry of course!" Phillips rose heavily and crossed to the bed. "I didn't mean to appear selfish. I don't blame you, Jim.
His lungs were filling with the first deep breath of relief when a sleepy voice spoke: "That you, Frank?" 'Poleon remained fixed in his tracks. "Frank!" There was a moment's pause, then, "FRANK!" Followed a rustle as of a body turning, then a startled mumble in answer. "Was that you?" Joe McCaskey's voice again demanded. "Me? What ?" "Was you outside?" "Outside?" "I heard the dogs rowing.
That feller McCaskey and his brother." "McCaskey!" "He's an old pal of Anderson's." "Does Big Lars know he's a thief?" Jerry shrugged. "Lars ain't the kind that listens to scandal and we ain't the kind that carries it." Pierce meditated briefly; then he said, slowly, "If your lay turns out good so will McCaskey's." His frown deepened.
As the different holidays come round there are frequent applications for the customs of those days, or for appropriate selections for school or festival. Miss Matthews and Miss Ruhl have helped us out in their "Memorial day selections," and McCaskey's "Christmas in song, sketch, and story," and the "Yule-tide collection" give great variety.
Doret spoke to him shortly, "Dese men ain't goin' mak' no trouble, m'sieu'." With that he turned his back and, heedless of the clamor, began to minister to the bleeding man. He had provided himself with a bottle of lotion, doubtless some antiseptic snatched from the canvas drugstore down the street, and with this he wet a handkerchief; then he washed McCaskey's lacerated back.
McCaskey's gaze intensified, his upper lip drew back in a grimace similar to that which he had lifted to the sky when agony ran through his veins like fire; he seemed to concentrate the last ounce of his soul's energy in the sending of some wordless message.
Joe is as vindictive as an Indian and he blames Pierce and me for his brother's death." In desperation Rouletta cried: "I'll pay the Count back his money- -I'll double it." "HIS money?" sneered the woman. "He hasn't a cent, except what I give him. That was McCaskey's dust." She stared at the apprehensive figure crouched upon the edge of the chair, and slowly her expression softened.
It was the clarion call of the Countess Courteau which first made itself heard above the din. She had climbed to the railing and was poised there with one arm outflung, a quivering finger leveled at Jim McCaskey's head. "Look!" she cried. "Look, men AT HIS HEAD! There's proof that he's been lying!" The victim of the assault had lost his cap in the scuffle, and with it had gone the bandage.
In a few sentences Pierce made known the facts of his recent loss, and pointed to Jim McCaskey's bandaged head. When the elder brother had concluded, the Countess again addressed the meeting. "You men take it for granted that Phillips did the stealing because he needed grub," said she. "As a matter of fact he wasn't broke, he had a thousand dollars, and " "Say! Who hired you to argue this case?"
"Jim's dead," the man repeated. "You killed him!" "I? Nonsense. Don't talk " "You killed him. YOU!" McCaskey's unblinking stare became positively venomous; he showed his teeth in a frightful grin. "You killed him. But there's more of us. Plenty more. We'll get you." He appeared to derive a ferocious enjoyment from this threat, for he dwelt upon it.
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