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The cloak was of yellow silk, embroidered in white, a costly garment from a fashionable maker; but there was nothing to indicate the wearer. The bag was a luxurious trifle in Brazilian lizard skin, with solid-gold mountings; but again there was no clew to the owner, no name, no cards, only some samples of dress goods, a little money, and an unmarked handkerchief.
You know what the rules say about that? Death without trial." "No, I didn't, capt'n; I didn't." "Search him, Mr. Todd." The search brought to light a tobacco-pouch in which were about fifty unset diamonds and a few well-jeweled solid-gold ornaments, which the captain pocketed. "Not much of a haul, considering what you left behind," he said calmly.
Louis flat with us three girls in a bed? Haven't I got my name all over town for speed, just because I've always had to rustle out and try to learn how to flatten out a dime to the size of a dollar? Where do I come in on the solid-gold talk, I'd like to know. I'm the penny-splitter of the world, the girl that made the Five-and-Ten-Cent Store millinery department famous.
"Not for the wimmin," said Mrs. Bailey, shortly. "My name's Baines," said Scattergood. "I calculate to know that." "Like livin' here, ma'am?" "Not so but what I could bear a change." "Um!... Mis' Bailey, I calc'late you'd hate to see Jim make a little money so's to be able to git away from here if he wanted to." "Him? Only way hell ever make money is to ketch a solid-gold trout."
Bein' English, you don't count, but I'm growed up. "Nothin' would do him but those Uncle Tom's Cabin dogs, however, and he had 'em imported clean from Berkshire or Sibeery or thereabouts, four of 'em, great, big, blue ones. They was as handsome and imposin' as a set of solid-gold teeth, but somehow they didn't seem to savvy our play none.
I gazed for a moment at her face, white, plump, tiny, and implacable, and gave her up. "How do you account for such a mass of gold being there?" I queried of Julian Jones. "A solid-gold meteor that fell out of the sky?" "Not for a moment." He shook his head. " It was carried there by the Indians." "Up a mountain like that and such enormous weight and size!" I objected. "Just as easy," he smiled.
"You're a good sport, girl; nobody can take that from you. But just the same, I'm going to let you off without a scratch." "'Good sport'! I'd like to know, anyways, where I come in with all your solid-gold talk. Me that's stood behind somebody-or-other's counter ever since I had my working-papers." "I'll get you out of " "Have I ever lived anywheres except in a dirty little North St.
"Say, Kid" He had even caught that form of address from her "I'll tell you. You can keep this watch of mine till I pay you back this money." He drew it out. "It's a good solid-gold watch and everything. My uncle Sylvester gave it to me for not smoking, on my eighteenth birthday. He smoked, himself; he even drank considerable. He was his own worst enemy.
Three days later even the launch was saved; that is, it was raised and was towed to a boat-builder for overhauling and repairs. The story that Len Spencer wrote for the "Blade" was "worse" than the midshipmen had expected. That is, the newspaper made them out to be heroes of some rare, solid-gold type.
Tanner was satisfied once and for all. "Wal, what's all the fuss, then?" "Any girl would ruin her life that threw herself away on Nat Burns. He's got a fine solid-gold case, but his works are very poor indeed, Ma Tanner." "Don't go talkin' educated or I can't follow ye. D'ye mean he's all show an' nothin' in his mind or heart of Christian goodness?" "Yes, I mean that, and I mean more besides.
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