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"You wouldn't dare go any farther away than the spring. You'd have to stay right here on this peak every minute of the twenty-four hours. They call up at all kinds of ungodly times, just to see if you're on the job, if they think you're snitching. They'd catch you gone sometime you couldn't get by with it and then " "The can," finished Miss Marion gravely.
Doubleday stared at the speaker. Van Horn, speaking to Kate, went right on: "There's a bunch of rustlers over in the Falling Wall, snitching steers on us right and left," he explained in a lower and very deferential tone, but a warm one. While Van Horn talked and Doubleday muttered husky and bitter questions, Bradley and Belle paid continuous attention to their coffee and griddle cakes.
"She will be involved in the sentence on la Pouraille, and let off with a year in quod for snitching," said Jacques Collin, looking at la Pouraille. La Pouraille understood his boss' scheme, and by a single look promised to persuade le Biffon to promote it by inducing la Biffe to take upon herself this complicity in the crime la Pouraille was prepared to confess. "Farewell, my children.
"Damn you, you're snitching," interrupted the criminal in a scream that was both wheedling and threatening. The young man put his foot on the burly neck and calmly ground it into the dust. Otherwise he paid no attention to him, but held the burning eyes of the girl that stared at him from a bloodless face. "What was he in for?" "For holding up a train."
A mad attempt at escape a week later, another bullet-hole given him in his struggle with his jailer, and with lips still stubbornly locked, he died without "snitching on a pal." Under fire in the dark cabin with life grown suddenly tense for them, Bud Lee and Judith Sanford had touched hands lingeringly. No one who knew them guessed it; certainly one of them, perhaps both, sought to forget it.
Wherefore Limpy had a grievance and now descended under pressure to the low level of snitching to Dodge in his office. "No, Governor," the trembling wretch had said as he handed over a grimy envelope, "I ain't never seen his face but here is directions how to find his hang-out."
We're not going around snitching to the police," growled Short and Long. "But if that man at the hospital is seriously hurt " "Oh, we're not sure it's the right car," said the boy, and evidently did not wish to talk about it. "Billy Long!" exclaimed the girl. "Are you boys trying to defend the guilty person?" "Aw " "Suppose that man at the hospital dies?" "Pshaw!
Besides, though honor was strong in him and he would never "snitch" on his companions, it would certainly be better to find out as much as possible about the scheme. There might be other ways besides "snitching" of stopping such things. Then suddenly his heart almost stopped beating, Madison Avenue! Sam had said Madison Avenue, and a girl! What if it were Starr's jewels they were planning to take.
The letters 'ller' may be the last end of 'caller, or possibly 'fuller'; I noticed Gilbert spoke in a former entry of the bottle in the cabinet and Hughes snitching from it, and used the word 'fuller. Here's the word 'Avenue, complete, and Lizzie Watkins, Hughes' girl, lives on Myrtle Avenue." The silence after that was fairly derisive. Worth broke it with an impatient,
Snitching well, you get the idea, eh? I'm ducking that too. Get me?" "I get you," said Lannigan, with a short, pleased laugh. "Well, then," announced Whitey Mack, "here's my proposition, and it's my turn to hand out the 'look-out-for-your-self' dope.
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