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This was precisely how he had expected the germ to behave. He shrank back on the pillow, gulping. "Why, for the love of Mike," said Steve, "don't you know me, kid? I'm not a porch-climber. Don't you remember Steve who used to raise Hades with you at the studio? Darn it, I'm your godfather! I'm Steve!" William Bannister sat up, partially reassured. "What's Steve?" he inquired. "I'm Steve." "Why?"
"Sit down for a minute," said Dawe, tugging at his sleeve. "This is my office. I can't come to yours, looking as I do. Oh, sit down you won't be disgraced. Those half-plucked birds on the other benches will take you for a swell porch-climber. They won't know you are only an editor." He always yielded gracefully when he did yield.
Yuh'll be framed the same as if yuh was a greengoods man or a gopher or a porch-climber. He's a revingeful inemy if ever there was wan." "You mean that Durand " "I'm not namin' names," the officer interrupted doggedly. "I'm tellin' yuh somethin' for your good. Take it or leave it." "Thanks, I'll leave it. This is a free country, and no man livin' can drive me away," answered Clay promptly.
He'd be an expert porch-climber if his practice in gaining access to certain balconies on certain back streets counted for anything. I could have told you before, but I did not want to shatter your illusions concerning the local Paul Revere." "You are trying to now, however." Willa looked straight into his eyes and then quickly away in immeasurable disdain.
Some pleasant evening, when your crew of hammock gladiators palls on you, let me come around and show you the difference." "What difference?" "I'll show you what a real porch-climber is like." "Indeed! I'll think it over." Ten minutes later Miss Santa Fe called up again. "Hello! I want Mitchell, the junior partner." "This is Mitchell." "Did you say those rivets were two-fifty?" "Should they be?"
Eyes like jet beads were fastened on him. In them he read indignation struggling with fear. "Say, what are you anyhow a moll buzzer? If you're a porch-climber out for the props you've sure come to the wrong dump. I got nothin' but bum rocks." This was Greek to Clay.
He said it was not fair to use my superior education. He laughed. 'Buck's got no sense. That's why you find him carrying on like a porch-climber. It's his only notion of how to behave when he wants to do a job. And that's why there's only one man to keep your eye on in this thing of the Little Nugget, and that's Sam. I wish you could get to know Sam. You'd like him.
He was wearing a dressing-gown, and in his hand was a smouldering cigarette, from which he proceeded, before continuing his remarks, to blow a cloud of smoke. 'Say, I guess you're wrong. That wasn't any ordinary porch-climber. The spectacle of his bete noire wreathed in smoke, coming on top of the emotions of the night, was almost too much for Mr Abney.
Beasley's house with a covert study that would have done credit to a porch-climber, for the sting of my blunder at the table was quiescent, or at least neutralized, under the itch of a curiosity far from satisfied concerning the interesting premises next door. The gentleman in the dressing-gown, I was sure, could have been no other than the Honorable David Beasley himself.
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