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Will you marry me? I can protect you from this hulking brute. If it's to be a show-down between you and me," he flared at Lund, still gazing as if stupefied, "let it come now. Peggy?" The girl, tears on her cheeks that were born from the sobs of anger that had shaken her, swung on him. "You?" she said, and Rainey wilted under the scorn in her voice. "Marry you?"
I did the minute she entered Donald's room." "And you demanded a show-down then and there?" Parenthetically it may be stated that Mr. Daney's intimate knowledge of The Laird's character prompted this question. He was certain of an affirmative reply. "I did." "And her answer was satisfactory?" "Absolutely!" "So I judged from the fact that you shook hands with me upon entering my office.
His hollow, hoarse, and unmirthful laughter echoed among the pines. "Great joke! Haig will like that. And the rest of them. Hell!" But Haig! And the Angus! Well, there'd got to be a show-down anyhow pretty soon. He dismounted, and seated himself on a fallen tree trunk, and gave himself up to reflections upon which it is only the most obvious kindness and discretion to draw the curtain.
It was all a grand frolic then, for none believed it would ever be put to practical use. But the fire chief had nodded wisely and said to Mrs. Vincent: "Those two young girls have long heads. It may all be a pretty show-down now, but some day you may find it come in handy." It came in very handy this time. In two minutes an alarm was turned in and the engines were tearing toward Columbia Heights.
He knocked about the camp, trying this thing and that, and was starting in at mining engineering with an old marine compass as his only instrument when Johnny Behan, who was newly appointed sheriff by the governor, gave him a job as a deputy. Then straightaway the eyes of men were turned upon him, and the query arose: "How's he going to stack up when it comes to a show-down?"
He's a coward when it comes to a show-down, but money and place and power are his gods. If it was a tremendous piece of villainy with a big incentive he mightn't have the courage to see it through himself, but he is quite capable of aiding and abetting it, or hiring others to do it for him." Gentleman Geoff's fists clenched and he drew a deep breath. "That's it!" he cried. "You've struck it, Mr.
But in a few days he could pick up his heels to better advantage. "We'll cure him when it comes to the final show-down," declared Ned. "We'll cure Jim of laziness, and it will be a fine piece of work." "Best of all, though," said Bart, "Frank seems to have forgotten his troubles, and that's why we undertook this."
Then Clyde, after much inward debate, told Casey of her presence that morning at the interview with Dade and Cross. "Well, they're quite a pair," said Casey. "They came to run some sort of a bluff, but concluded not to push it to a show-down. They'll make trouble for us, I suppose. They're simply hired men, and that's their job." "What kind of trouble?"
"But it has come to a show-down at last, between you and me," the greener went on as he slowly and methodically turned the sleeves of his shirt back from his mighty forearms. "They tell me you are a fighting man, Moncrossen. They tell me you have licked men here in the woods good men, too. And they tell me you have knocked down drunken men, and stamped on their faces with your steel-calked boots.
While his enemies denounced his meekness and apparent subservience to German diplomacy, and while some went so far as to characterize his conduct as cowardly, he serenely moved on and forced Germany to a show-down. He not only asked Germany to state her terms, but he frankly asked the Allies to give to the world their statement of what they considered the basis of peace.
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