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It was after breakfast-time of the next ship-day when he got out the sample of clear liquid he'd worked so long to produce. "We'll see how it works," he observed. "Murgatroyd's handy in case of a slip-up. It's perfectly safe so long as he's aboard and there are only the two of us." She watched as he injected half a cc under his own skin. Then she shivered a little. "What will it do?"
Hardesty and Buckbee and learned how the market riggers worked, but neither to her nor to Buckbee did he so much as hint of his purpose. His day would come when the Tecolote dividend was voted, when he got his million dollar check; and the only thing that could keep him from a notable revenge was some slip-up in connection with the dividend.
I needed Mary to get the money. But Mary was only willing to take me because her father wished her to; and I was heartily sick of playing the saint to stand well with him. Oh, well, I'll tell you why not? The old hypocrite had a Puritan's sharp eyes, and he had caught me in a slip-up or two, and I knew he was about to tell Mary to break the betrothal.
"They won't run away to-night, Jeff," grumbled one of the men. "You ain't a-goin' to stay here and watch them, are you?" "No, I'm not but you are," growled the one addressed as Jeff. "See here, my buck, the boss don't want any slip-up on this job see? He's been stung once too often. I'm goin' back to the boat, but you and Tim will stay here till daylight right here, mind you!"
There were men to the wheel that day who could handle big fishermen as if they were cat-boats, who would have dared and did, later, dare to sail their vessels as close to a mark in this sea as men sail a twenty-foot knockabout in the smoothest of waters inshore only with the fishermen a slip-up meant the loss of a vessel, maybe other vessels too, and twenty-five or fifty lives perhaps.
"This life's just one damned thing after another, looks like," he commented. "I didn't figure on that. I thought sure the boys would bump into Threewit. That slip-up surely spills the beans." "You don't think even Pasquale would dare hurt them, do you?" asked Lennox anxiously. "Search me. Pasquale's boiled in p'ison, especially when he is drunk. He'd do whatever he had a mind to do."
"Well, I only hope it holds good this time!" laughed the young inventor. "There are a good many things that can go wrong," observed Ned. "The least little slip-up may spoil your traps, Tom." "I know it, Ned. But I've got to take the chance. We've just got to do something for Mrs. Damon.
"But they haven't gotten clear away yet!" snapped out Bud. "We're going to take after them! They can't go fast with a big bunch of cattle, and we're bound to catch them sooner or later!" "They'll probably put up a fight," observed Old Billee, who was feeling much easier, now. "That's what I'm counting on, and that's why I don't want any slip-up!" exclaimed Bud.
Music like great laughter rose over the slip-up in her voice. "You going to write to me, Miriam?" "Yes, Irving." "Often?" "Yes, Irving." "You're not going to forget me over there, are you, when you get to meeting all those counts and big fellows?" "Oh, Irving!"
Joe, perhaps, felt more elated than did Blake, though the latter was glad that his theory in regard to the direction taken by the men had proved correct. But Joe felt that now he had a better chance to prove his father innocent of the charge made against him that he was involved with the wreckers. "We've got 'em!" he whispered. "Yes we've got 'em to get!" agreed Blake. "No slip-up this time."
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