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When it comes to a show-down we'll all be here. But it's no place fer wimmin an' children." "I don't want to get into a fight if we can help it," said Ted. "Yer ain't afraid o' these cattle, aire ye?" asked the foreman, looking at Ted curiously, but with a shade of disappointment in his eyes. "Not for a minute," said Ted, throwing a straight glance into the other's eyes.
The pain of it made him break out into a fine sweat. But he hadn't understood. What had he understood until this love had come into his life! He would never do a thing as cruel as that now. Come to think of it, the older Rose wasn't acting like a bad sort. But then, when it came to a show-down she might not be so magnanimous as she had appeared tonight. Mrs. Wade was still thinking.
"If I can't bring things to a last show-down within a day or two," he looked the situation squarely in the face, "it will be uncomfortable for him emphatically uncomfortable." He turned to a study of the questions he wanted to put to Eidstein, this kindly old merchant who was so considerate, so handsomely considerate, about buying back jewels he had once sold. Mr.
If others care to sit in, perhaps we'll all come to a show-down, next spring at Thirty Mile. It'll be easy enough to explain just how we did it. Alibis based on veiled opposition wouldn't interest the Reserve people much, if we left their timber there to rot. . . . And I'm trying not to overlook any bets, Mr. Elliott." Hastily the iron-gray man thrust his hat back from his forehead.
"I have to respect my friends, and I can't respect a man who is all hog. There's no pretence on either side now, though they're trying to sheep us out and we are trying to fight them off, and if it ever comes to a show-down well " He paused, and his eyes glowed with a strange light.
They will not turn over the herd, of course, until" he paused significantly "the money is paid." Kid Wolf smiled. He leaned back in his chair and crossed his legs. "One does not pay for stolen cattle, Don Floristo," he drawled. The muscles of the don's body stiffened. Kid Wolf's face was a smiling mask. The show-down had come. There was a long pause.
"Ah, Maria dear, good Maria she at least will not have forgotten me," sobbed Carmela in her own tongue, and Watts afterwards informed Coke that although the inhabitants of China were noted for their peculiar ways, when it came to a show-down in that qualification, the average woman could beat any Chinky ever born.
If you'd taken less dope, the last twenty years, you'd have more nerve now, to face the music! World-master, you? Eh? Playing the biggest game on earth and now, when things break bad, you squeal! Arrrh! You called me a quitter once, you mealy-mouthed old Pecksniff! We'll see, now, who quits! We'll see, at a show-down, who can face it, you or I!"
And most of them were pretty white when it came to a show-down. You were one of them, Fingers. I heard the story one Winter far north. I've kept it to myself, because I've sort of had the idea that you didn't want people to know or you would have told it yourself. That's why I wanted you to come to see me, Fingers. You know the situation. It's either the noose or iron bars for me.
But ," he came closer, caught both of Benito's coat lapels in a confidential grasp, "I'm tellin' ye this, me lad: If it should come to a show-down ... if certain enemies should have a chance to call Bill Ralston's hand, I tell ye, it would mean dee-saster!" At 9 o'clock on the morning of August 25, Francisco Stanley entered the private door of Windham's office.
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