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Mila joined him and after turning the lamp to a pin-head of light, their shoulders touching for the window was narrow they peered into the night. They were on the side of the water. Suddenly Gerald exclaimed: "What's that light out at sea far out? It looks like the moon!" "It is the sun," coolly replied his companion.
I was in the very act of telling him that, as I should not go below again, he might turn in if he chose, my eyes being all the while fixed upon the setting moon, when suddenly, almost immediately under the luminary, I caught a momentary glimpse of a small black object small as a pin-head as it were hove-up on the back of a sea against the luminous sky.
We talked it all out last night; how impossible it was to live on my present salary, and what I should say if it wasn't raised. That is, all but the crude way I put it, and the pin-head part. We agreed, though, that I had to make a break, and that it might as well be now as later on." "Well, you've made it," says I. "What now?" "We've got to think that out," says Hartley.
Next beyond is the chamber containing the Standing Rock behind which Mr. Johnstone made his famous discovery of the concealed pin-head. It is an immense great fallen rock on whose dark surface are scattered transparent flake-like crystals of satin spar, resembling the congealed drops of a summer shower. The mind-reader entered the chamber by the way we shall leave it.
"I've got enough of cutting palo verdes," replied Hardy, "but you just lend me that axe for a minute and I'll show you something." He stepped to the nearest sahuaro and with a few strokes felled it down the hill, and when Creede saw how the cattle crowded around the broken trunk he threw down his hat and swore. "Well damn me," he said, "for a pin-head!
Bet none of 'em prints it, though." Wherein he was a true prophet. There was a long, uneasy pause. "Hal," said Ellis hesitantly. "Well?" "I'm a fool." The white weariness of Hal's face lit up with a smile. "Why, Mac " he began. "A pin-head," persisted the other stubbornly. "A block of solid ivory from the collar up.
Very soon after the water and dirt commence to run in the sluice, all the spaces between the riffle-bars are filled with sand, gravel and dirt; which, however, present many little inequalities of surface, sufficient to catch all the particles of gold larger than a pin-head. The largest gold is caught near the head of the sluice; and the farther down the sluice, the finer the gold.
"There is, I believe," he resumed slowly, "no crime that is ever without a clew. The slightest trace, even a drop of blood no larger than a pin-head, may suffice to convict a murderer. So may a single hair found on the clothing of a suspect. In this case," he added quickly, "it is the impression made by the hammer of a pistol on the shell of a cartridge which leads unescapably to one conclusion."
The man who can make a pin-head better and cheaper than any one else, must give his attention to making pin-heads only. He need not know how to point a pin, or polish it, or cut the wire. On the contrary his skill in that one operation increases ordinarily in proportion to his want of skill in others. His perfection as a workman is in the direct ratio to his imperfection as a man.
That pin-head Sweeney don't make a move till the stretch, then he tries to come from seventh all at once . . . 'n' by God, he does it! That colt comes from nowhere to the Banjo mare while they're goin' an eighth! The boy on Banjo goes to the bat, but the colt just gallops on by 'n' breezes in home. "'You bum! I says to Sweeney. 'What kind of a trip do you call that?
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