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Updated: June 12, 2025
"They must go off and build up new places. And some people are going West, as if there wasn't room here. Have you noticed that we are overcrowded?" "Well, sometimes along the docks it looks that way." "I like a good many people. Often Merrits' is crowded, and it's funny to catch bits of sentences. And at Plummer's as well.
He thought first that the correspondent was on his way to join the crowd around the speaker's stand, but he soon perceived that he was going in another direction. It was "King" Plummer's first impulse there was still liquid fire in his veins to overtake Harley and demand the only kind of satisfaction that such a man as he should have.
A moment more and, with glaring eyes, with agonized, ashen face, the Arizona merchant stood at the entrance of the ranch, clinging to the horse-rail for support, listening with gasping breath to Plummer's faltering recital of the events of the morning. "Are you sure it was my son, my Ned?" he moaned. "I never saw him before, Mr. Harvey; but some of my men were sure, and old Moreno here "
He and the "King" had never been able to get on together, the mountaineer treating him with rough indifference, and Churchill returning it with a hauteur which he considered very effective. To Churchill men of "King" Plummer's type seemed the greatest danger the country could have.
I gave the point but slight attention at the time. I did not fancy Mr. Plummer's chances. It seemed to me that Mr. Plummer was a negligible quantity." "Your knowledge of form was sound. Plummer's out!" "Indeed, sir! An amiable young gentleman, but lacking in many of the essential qualities. Perhaps he struck you that way, sir?" "I never met him. Nearly, but not quite!"
"But the music's lovely," gasped little Miss Plummer, as if the fact made his claim ridiculous. "I've been humming it ever since." "I can't help that. I still stick to it that I wrote it." "You aren't George Bevan!" "I am!" "But " Miss Plummer's voice almost failed here "But I've been dancing to your music for years! I've got about fifty of your records on the Victrola at home." George blushed.
Here Styles, Plummer's man, took the lead, and a little way farther along the road we turned into a dark and muddy lane on the left. We floundered through this for some hundred and fifty yards or so, and then suddenly drew in at an opening on the right.
The situation brought a thrill of satisfaction and interest to one man on the train, and he was Churchill. The cumulative effect of "King" Plummer's bolt might force Jimmy Grayson off the track, and it was not yet too late to put up another candidate. Such a thing had never been done, but that was no reason why it could not succeed, and he telegraphed Mr. Goodnight that Mr.
By the light from Plummer's flare, I could see them clearly, as they lay out upon the yard. It occurred to me that they went gingerly which is no surprising thing. And then, as they drew near to the yard-arms, they passed beyond the brilliance of the light; so that I could not see them clearly.
He rode back towards her, and then he received a blow a blow square in the face, and dealt heavily. "King" Plummer's was not a mind trained to look upon the more delicate shades of life he dealt rather with the obvious; but when he saw Harley and Sylvia he knew. Mrs. Grayson's warning, which at first he had only half accepted, had come true, and it had come quickly.
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