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"Say," he continued, apologetically, swaying dangerously on his feet, "I'm afraid I haven't got a cent." "Huh?" "I'm cleaned out." "Sa-a-ay! Didn't I hear you promise you'd fix it with me? Who's goin' to pay the taxi bill?" He turned to the driver for confirmation. "Didn't you hear him say he'd fix it? All that about his grandfather?"
He dashed away across the inhospitable fields, and I fell into the high road among the routed. Expletives like these ensued: "Sa-a-ay! Hoss! Pardner! Are you going to ride over this wounded feller?" "Friend, have you a drop of water for a man that's fainted here?" "Halloo! Buster! Keep that bayonit out o' my eye, if you please!" "Where's Gen. Banks? I hearn say he's a prisoner." "I do' know!"
The little heap of burned matches at his elbow was growing to kindling wood proportions. It was common knowledge that Blackie's trick of lighting pipe or cigarette and then forgetting to puff at it caused his bill for matches to exceed his tobacco expense account. "You talk," chuckled Blackie, "like you meant it. But sa-a-ay, girl, it's a lonesome game, this retirin' with a fortune.
'I'm sorry to disturb you, I began, when Buck, ever the man of action, with a scorn of palaver, strode past me, and, having prodded with the pistol that part of the bedclothes beneath which a rough calculation suggested that Mr Abney's lower ribs were concealed, uttered the one word, 'Sa-a-ay! Mr Abney sat up like a Jack-in-the-box. One might almost say that he shot up. And then he saw Buck.
Talk of brigands Up and off! How juiced SOLD he must be feeling It was a shave too in the coach yard!" Suddenly he became silent. Abruptly his eyebrows rose and his jaw fell. "I sa-a-ay!" said Mr. Hoopdriver. He had never thought of it before. Perhaps you will understand the whirl he had been in overnight. But one sees things clearer in the daylight.
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