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"I went to jail when I was fourteen because I wanted a knife to make kite sticks, and I stole a razor from a barber. I was bitter when they steered me into a lockup in Hickory Street. It was full of bugs and crooks, and they put me in the same cell with an old-timer named 'Red' Waters; who was one of the slickest safe-blowers around in those days.
The Treasury Department will have it that he was the head of that Fourteenth Street gang of coiners, and I've a pal down at Baltimore who is ready to take his oath that he planned the theft of the Vanderloon jewels and brought it off, too! But I tell you this, sir. When the trouble comes, whoever gets nabbed it's never Jocelyn Thew. He's the slickest thing that ever came down the pike."
The joke is on me, Chalmers, for I'm obliged to say that you are the cleverest, slickest person I've ever seen, and you beat me! I've a lot of respect for you, Chalmers. Here's my fist shake!" The other walked to meet him and they clasped hands in the middle of the room. It was only for a second; for as quick as a flash, Mr. Roddy seemed to stiffen every muscle in his body.
John was found to be big, strong, and bronzed with the outdoor life of many a sketching trip a son to be proud of, and to be leaned upon in one's old age. Mrs. John, according to Perry Larson, was "the slickest little woman goin'." According to John's mother, she was an almost unbelievable incarnation of a long-dreamed-of, long-despaired-of daughter sweet, lovable, and charmingly beautiful.
It's about the slickest game I ever heard of!" "But how could he know what officers were to make out those specifications?" "Oh, that's easy," said the other. "That was the beginning of the whole thing. They got a tip that the contract was to be let, and they had no trouble in finding out the names of the officers. That kind of thing is common, you know; the bureaus in Washington are rotten."
"Why, Jacky, he's the slickest dip that's short for pickpocket in the United States. He's the king of all the glue- fingers, that boy is. My eye, 'ow he can do wot he does, I can't for the life of me see." He then went into a long dissertation on the astonishing accomplishments of Artful Dick Cronk. "And you all associate with him?" cried David, openly surprised. "Certain sure. Why not?
He'll fight twenty-four hours of the day, and he's the slickest, crookedest gray wolf that ever skulked over the range." The foreman of the D Bar Lazy R came in after supper for a conference with his boss. He and Crawford got their heads together in the sitting-room and the young people gravitated out to the porch.
The Chicago man was the most important mouse of the lot, and the tone of his voice and his way of speaking seemed fraught with a purpose. "Slickest game I ever heard of," continued Mason. "Two men came into town two poor prospectors, remember ran across the Englishman at the hotel told the story of their claim: 'Take it or leave it after you look it over, they said.
You didn't have this in your pocket half an hour before it was lifted by one of the slickest poke-getters in the whole of little old New York." He was taking a letter from its envelope and opening out the sheet. "That's the kind of a crowd that's in on this, my bucko! Listen, and I'll read the letter.
The game has got us we haven't a move. We played it to the limit, the slickest swindle that was ever worked, and it worked till there's more money than I've tried to count. And then it changed us from thieves, from from anything you like and now that we want to quit, now that we want a chance to make good, it's got us in its grip and we can't get away."
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