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This, upon arrival at the thicket, Ted dropped in on top of the first installment. "Now, I guess I ought to hide somewhere where there won't be the least danger of them finding me. Then I can see the fun when those fellows come ashore," chuckled Teall. "Hold on, though! There's one more debt to pay. That confounded Hi Martin called the South Grammar a 'mucker' school.
"I'd a-hated myself if I'd thought that I could ever talk mushy like I am now. Gee, Bridge, but I was the limit! A girl a nice girl called me a mucker once, an' a coward. I was both; but I had the reputation of bein' the toughest guy on the West Side, an' I thought I was a man. I nearly poked her face for her think of it, Bridge!
"Why I don't know; I haven't thought that far ahead; go to work in the iron plant and be a mucker all the rest of my life, I reckon." "How silly! You are nearly eighteen, now, aren't you? and about six feet tall?" "Both," he said briefly. "And all the way along you've been meaning to be a minister?" He gritted his teeth. "That's all over, now; I reckon it's been over for a long time."
The situation was no longer humorous. I could put up with anything but the mishandling of my devoted golf clubs. Striding up to him, I snatched the remnants from his hands. "You infernal cub!" I roared. "Haven't you any more sense than to smash a golf club like that? For two cents I'd break this putter over your head." "Father!" he yelled indignantly. "Who is this mucker?" Mr.
It was the mucker, and at sight of him there swept over the girl the terrible peril of her position alone in the savage mountains of a savage island with the murderer of Billy Mallory the beast that had kicked the unconscious Theriere in the face the mucker who had insulted and threatened to strike her! She shuddered at the thought.
He was bleeding from numerous wounds, but at his feet lay two dead warriors, while a third crawled away with a mortal wound in his abdomen. Barbara Harding devoted her energies to thrusting and cutting at those who tried to press past the mucker, that they might take him from behind. The battle could not last long, so unequal were the odds.
It was Gordon who took up the story, and his voice vibrated with passion: "The beast took her away and then flung her adrift on the port of Singapore, Barry! There was a little truth and a lot of lies in those tales circulated about me. True, I had been using liquor rather more than was good for a white man out here; but when I heard of this last piece of villainy, I simply went a complete mucker.
A third corner of the paillasse was rudely grasped by a six-foot combination of yellow hair, red hooligan face, and sky-blue trousers; assisted by the undersized tasseled mucker in Belgian uniform, with a pimply rogue's mug and unlimited impertinence of diction, who had awakened me by demanding if I wanted coffee.
"Yeh see wot happens to guys dat get gay wit me?" said the mucker to the girl, and then stooping over the prostrate form of the mate Billy Byrne withdrew a huge revolver from Theriere's hip pocket. "I guess I'll need dis gat in my business purty soon," he remarked. Then he planted a vicious kick in the face of the unconscious man and went his way to the forecastle.
The "white hope" lost his self-control and what little remained of his short temper, and deliberately struck Billy a foul blow, but before the referee could interfere the mucker swung another just such blow as he had missed and fallen with in the second round; but this time he did not miss his mighty fist caught the "coming champion" on the point of the chin, lifted him off his feet and landed him halfway through the ropes.
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