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You'll find it a neck-stretching game, captain, I'm afraid, when the jury comes to hear of that poor boy's death and your beastly part in it."
Better stow that kind of talk. It's dangerous. You have the law against you, and it's a neck-stretching affair." "The law?" he echoed. "What do you think that gang cares for the law? Mighty few laws they ain't broke in their time! And they may be stiffs, right enough, but they'll fight for money!" "Dare say," I remarked, sarcastically.
His iron bed was spread with a pair of Pullman blankets, his toilet arrangements included nothing more elaborate than a shaving outfit, and the mirror above his washstand was only large enough to make a hurried shave, with much neck-stretching, possible. The table was littered with letters, but it filled up one corner of the room, and a rocking-chair and a trunk filled up another.
You'll find it a neck-stretching game, captain, I'm afraid, when the jury comes to hear of that poor boy's death and your beastly part in it."
I went below after that watch with the thought of mutiny stirring in the back of my mind. But in the back, not the front, mind you. For mutiny on a ship is a dreadful business, as I, a sailor, well knew. A neck-stretching business! Yet there the thought was, and it stuck, and pecked ever more insistently at my consciousness as the days passed. Of course, I was wild with rage at Swope's attempt.
It was as if two men talked, one in rapid and clear-clipped syllables the other in a stutter. Said Viper, "There might be neck-stretching too if too many tongues make talk. Jess will have the boys ready at the place soon in the morning. They will wait for orders there." "At the place!" Halloway in his counterfeited sleep cursed to himself.
"Where are these Yankees?" cried Jarauta, leaping out of his saddle. "How many?" "Four, Captain." "Very well what are you waiting for?" "To know whether I shall hang or shoot them." "Shoot them, by all means! Carambo! we have no time for neck-stretching!"
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