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Another scream outer her, an' I'll go in myself, in the face of you." "Now, Martha, be sensible!" pleaded Sam Slawson. "You can't break into a man's house without his consent." "Can't I? Well, just you watch me close, an' you'll see if I can't." "You'll make yourself liable to the law. He's her husband, you know.
Slawson had appeared in her own doorway, and was standing, night-robed and ghostly, listening attentively to the intermittent signs of distress. "It's that bloomin' Dutchman, Langbein, acrost the hall. Every time he goes on a toot, he comes back an' wallops his wife for it. Go to bed, Miss Claire, child, an' don't let it worry you. It ain't your funeral."
Something subtly fascinating in Martha seemed to draw him after her, and he followed on upstairs, swinging himself athletically along, hand over hand, upon the baluster-rail, almost at her heels. "Say, don't you wonder what it is my mother's goin' to say to you?" he demanded disingenuously. Mrs. Slawson shook her head.
They stay beasts straight through the performance." Claire laughed. "But, as it happened, I didn't need a Prince, did I? I didn't need a Prince or any one else, for I had a good fairy godmother who O, Mrs. Slawson, I I can't " "You don't have to. An' I'm not Mrs. Slawson to you. I'm just Martha, for I feel like you was my own young lady, an' if you call me Mrs.
"We'll hear, I guess, soon enough," said Shaughnessy. Sure enough, it did develop. Mr. Slawson owned the property adjoining, and was going to put up a modern office building. The present one was to be torn down. It would take probably a year and a half to complete the other one. All these things developed by degrees, and Hurstwood began to ponder over what would become of the saloon.
Slawson snapped the receiver into its crotch. But though Claire was not five minutes in advance of her, Martha was unable to make up the distance between them, and by the time she had mounted the stairs leading to the Elevated, and stood panting for breath on the platform, the train she had hoped to catch was to be seen disappearing around the curve at Fifty-third Street.
I've been watching you when you didn't know it, and I've seen the signs and the tokens. Your heart has the hunger-ache in it!" "Now, what do you think o' that!" exclaimed Mrs. Slawson. "What do you know about hearts an' hunger-aches, I should like to know. You, an unmarried maiden-girl, without so much as the shadder or the skelegan of a beau, as far as I can see.
You can take it from me, Sammy Slawson, when things seem to be kinder shuttin' down on ye, an' gettin' black-like, same's they lately been doin' on us, that ain't no time to be chicken-hearted. Anybody could fall down when they're knocked. That's too dead-easy! No, what we want, is buck up an' have some style about us.
"Miss Lang's here, too. Bein' so dim, an' comin' in outer the sunlight, perhaps you don't make out to see her." "She ain't had time yet to pull herself together," Mrs. Slawson inwardly noted. "But, Lord! The first cold greetings over, Claire started to retreat in the direction of the door. "Excuse me, please I promised Francie She's expecting me she's waiting "
Still, Max Bloom, the manager of this company, insists that the fire was set for revenge, and indeed it looks as much like a fire for revenge as the Jones-Green fire does" here he lowered his voice confidentially "for the purpose of collecting insurance. "Then came the fire in the Slawson Building, a new loft-building that had been erected just off Fourth Avenue.
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