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Beat us to it with her fool's courage an' her sickenin' love! Oh, t' hell with Courtrey an' all this Valley! I'm a-goin' t' move down th' Wall, s'help me!" But Tharon Last forged to his side and gripped his arm in her strong fingers. "Shut up, Jim Banner," she said tensely. "You've only begun.
"Yes, sir; but I'd better tell you the whole story, sir," said the ex-gravedigger. "I acknowledge owing Mister Isaacs some money, though he's piled it on pretty thick, I must say; for I were four weeks out of work and had to board at his place." "Yes, s'help me, and ate and drank of the best, too. Oh, Father Moses, how he did eat!" interrupted his creditor.
You won't see my trail for smoke when I get a gait on for God's country, my wad in my poke and the sunshine in my eyes. Say! How'd a good juicy tenderloin strike you just now, green onions, fried potatoes, and fixin's on the side? S'help me, that's the first proposition I'll hump myself up against. Then a general whoop-la! for a week Seattle or 'Frisco, I don't care a rap which, and then "
Sympathy don't travel by word of mouth between pardners. It's the grip of the hand or the look of the eye. "'What cause? says I. "He turned, and s'help me, I never want to see the like again. His face was plumb grey and dead, like wet ashes, while his eyes scorched through, all dry and hot. Lines was sinkin' into it as I looked.
"Ye vood, ye liar, presshus shoon if ye 'ad arf a shance, I bet, s'help me!" shouted out the other man, who, from his speech, was evidently a Hebrew and a creditor. "Ye're von tarn sheet, dat's vot ye vas, a bloomin' corpse swindler, vot sheets de living, s'help me, and rops ze dead! I shpit upon ye, I does!"
Gross?" inquired the detective, laughing in spite of himself at the little fellow's distress. "Vell, I'll told you," he answered, mopping the perspiration which was streaming from his face. "I was tinkin' dot may be if you git dot fellow, you vould be vantin' me for a vitness, and s'help me Moses I vould not do dot not for dwo hundred tollar."
"'Cos I was scared I was," Bob replied, in tears. "I didn't know but that they might took and hang me for seeing it. I told mammy the other night, and mammy she came and told the gent there," pointing one finger at the counsel for the crown, "and he said I must come and tell it here; and that's all I've got to tell, and I'm werry sorry as hever I seed it, and it's all true, s'help me!"
Gee!" "I didn't mean it, Marj. It slipped. S'help me, I didn't. Sometimes I just don't know what I'm saying, Marj; that's how my mind kinda gets sometimes. All fuzzed over like." "What's the odds what you say, Blink? You're just not man-size, I guess." She was a bleak little figure bowing into the wind, her tippet flapping back over one shoulder.
I only thought that he wanted to bleed him, using that pretty woman, s'help me, God! I did." "We will judge of your story when we hear it," grimly answered McNerney. But it was Doctor Atwater's measured courtesy which disarmed this vulgar youth's pregnant fears. "We can show your mother and yourself to have been used as innocent tools, if you give up the whole truth.
"I vash keep him ven he vash shtarving; and now, ven he got money, he von't shettle. He's a shvindler and a tief, s'help me; and I shvear I'll have the law on him!" "Why don't you pay this man if you owe him anything?" said the lieutenant, sharply, to "Downy." "You've received your advance money from the paymaster, have you not?"
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