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Updated: June 23, 2025
I have the man's name, I know the hour you telephoned to him, I know exactly what you said to him and how much you paid him to do the job. Well, this friend of yours overplayed his hand; he didn't succeed in killing Farrel, but he did succeed in getting himself captured." He paused, with fine dramatic instinct, to watch the effect of this broadside.
Well, along this summer he was on the point of making a break that would well, I says to him, says I, 'Hank, I'm no penny-squeezer; I like good stretchy legs myself, I says; 'I like to see them elastic so they'll give a plenty when they're pulled; but, I says, 'if you take that step, I says, 'if you declare yourself, then the rubber in your legs, I says, 'will just naturally snap; you'll find you've overplayed the tension, I says, 'and there won't be any more stretch left in them.
The sequel shows that the English at Albany overplayed their part. The reward of their protection was to be suzerainty, and at this price protection proved unacceptable to the Iroquois, whose safety lay in the equipoise of power between the rival whites.
Just how far he had overplayed his hand, that man never knew. Far enough to send Mary V to her room rather white and scared; shaking, too, with excitement. She stood by the window, looking out at the moon-lighted yard with its wind-beaten flowers.
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