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Updated: June 14, 2025
With certainty I await my conge. And after painful scene I get it. I am to go. At once. He 'ave assured the angry American woman that I go at once. He has called me into his private office. 'Jean, he has said to me, at the end of other things, 'you are a fool, dolt, no-good imbecile. I give you good place in my hotel, and you spend your time flinging cats. I will 'ave no more of you.
Morton, my friend Hoden gave me a hunch you'd be a good man to tie to. Now, I've a little money, and before I lose it I'd like to invest it in stock." He smiled broadly, but for all his doubt of me he took definite interest. "I'm not drunk, and I'm on the square," I said bluntly. "You've taken me for a no-good cow puncher without any brains. Wake up, Morton.
Mose, my little nigger, sleeps here too, but I reckon you won't mind him. He's clean." Strange to say, it was Jockey Moseby Jones who minded. He minded very much, in plain English, waylaying Old Man Curry as he made the rounds of the stalls that night, lantern in hand. "This yer Squawkin' Henry, boss, he's a no-good hound. He's no good a-a-atall.
"Then went the jury out whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, Mr. Implacable, who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the judge. And first among themselves, Mr.
Ain't I goin' to be allowed to finish?" A Voice. "We'll finish you, you stiff!" "How will you vote, hey? Tell us that! How? Hey?" "You're a no-good, you robber. I know you for ten years now already. You cheated me when you were in the grocery business." "Answer me this, Mr. Pinski. If a majority of the citizens of the Fourteenth Ward don't want you to vote for it, will you still vote for it?"
"Oh, some no-good hobo," replied Bill. "If I catch him, I'll teach him to come snooping around folks' houses this Way." "I hope he didn't overhear our conversation about the galleon," suddenly exclaimed Frank, who had been struck by a sudden apprehension that perhaps this was no ordinary loafer or burglar, but some man who had got wind of Bill's discovery and meant to turn his find to advantage.
"Bill," he said, "you seen anything of a spavined, long-horned, no-good skunk named Hollis around town today?" And Terry could see him wait, quivering, half in hopes that the stranger would show some anger at this denunciation. "Ain't seen nobody by that name," said Bill mildly. "Maybe you're chasing a wild goose? Who told you they was a gent named Hollis around?"
He insisted that Jennie send her to dancing-school, and Gerhardt was beside himself with rage and grief. "Such irreligion!" he complained to Jennie. "Such devil's fol-de-rol. Now she goes to dance. What for? To make a no-good out of her a creature to be ashamed of?" "Oh no, papa," replied Jennie. "It isn't as bad as that. This is an awful nice school. Lester says she has to go."
"Why," answered Westley, looking very earnest, "just go up to him in a quiet, refined manner no blustering, understand and say in a low tone, kind of off-hand but serious, 'Now, look a' here, Potts, old boy, let's talk this thing over like a couple of gentlemen had ought to. 'Well, all right, says Potts, 'that's fair I couldn't refuse that as from one gentleman to another gentleman. Well, then, say to him, 'Now, Potts, you know as well as any man in this town that you're an all-round no-good you're a human Not and a darn scalawag into the bargain.
She had sat in a cobbler's while this repair to the part of her person she was most insistent upon had been effected. He laughed. "A good investment, that," said he. "I've been noticing how you always look nice about the feet. Keep it up. The surest sign of a sloven and a failure, of a moral, mental, and physical no-good is down-at-the-heel. Always keep your heels straight, Lorna."
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