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I haven't been on good terms with my brother since I joined the church, so I don't go to his house any more; but I heard some talk about its being the 'slickest thing ever. I know the Preacher went there to stop it and that they trapped him and that it was Jack Lowe did it." "Will you go before the deacons of the church and tell them that if it is necessary?"
He's the one who has influenced the committee to take their stand against you; he's helping them plan things out now so as to throw you down, hoping to become president himself; he's trying to marry Alice so that you can't expose him when you begin to unravel his double cross. I tell you, he's the slickest Johnnie outside of State's Prison."
Waal, never mind, my Ethiopian serenader," he added good-humouredly. "You're none the worse fur your colour, as fur as I ken see; and I will say this fur you, that you're the slickest and smartest ship's cook I ever came across from Maine to Californy; and that's saying something!" "Tank you, massa," replied Snowball, much flattered by the compliment.
I s'pose the rest beun' all in brown jeans, and linsey woolsey, made us notice it more. He was dressed in the slickest kind of black broadcloth, with a long frock-coat, and a white cravat. He had on a ruffled shirt, and a tall beaver hat, the color of the fur, and a pair of these here high boots, with his breeches strapped down under 'em."
She was full of eager interest; it seemed to her that Skeels ducking the detectives that way was more than clever almost worthy of a wonder man. "Slickest thing I ever knew," I grumbled. "You can gamble I wouldn't be going south after him if Skeels hadn't shown himself too many for the Hicks agency and they're one of the best in the business."
God knows what thoughts passed through that somber mind in those long hours, when, concentrated upon himself, he must have faced the problem of his future and, like one before an impassable stone wall, had to fall back, baffled. He could be sure of only one thing: that never again could he be what he had been once "the slickest cracksman in America." This in itself tortured him.
"She's lobbyin' for that infernal Sabbath- Desecration bill, but we'll beat her, my son." "Have you made her acquaintance, Senator?" asked Alonzo stiffly. "No, sir, and I don't want to. But I knew her father the slickest old beat and the smoothest talker that ever waltzed up the pike. She married rich; her husband left her a lot of real estate around here, but she spends most of her time away.
Quickly, one of the detectives stooped down and compared his face with a photograph he had taken from his pocket. "Yes " he exclaimed; "that's the fellow well known counterfeiter. Did time in San Quentin and Joliet. Known as Baron Rapp, Richard Barton and a dozen other aliases. He's one of the slickest rogues in the country. We've got the valet safe downstairs. I guess he'll get twenty years."
"I did," says Old Hickory. "I want to get a renewal of that Manistee terminal lease." Say, of all the scientific squirmin', Gedney Nash can put up the slickest specimen. First off he lets on not to know a thing about it. Well, perhaps it was true that International Utilities did control those wharves: he really couldn't say. And besides that matter would be left entirely to the discretion of
"I know you just asked me, you nosing little devil, and it's none of your business! She's a pal of mine, if you want to know, the slickest thief that ever robbed a flat. She's got more sense in a minute than you'll ever have in a lifetime. She's going to live here with me now. You can sleep on the cot in the kitchen. And you come when she calls, if you know what's good for your lazy hide.
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