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It was the veriest accident I was stalling for time but when I saw him color up I knew I'd touched a sore spot. No, Bupps, I don't think Woods has a private fortune." "But even if you show him up as worthless, will Helen come back to you, Jim?" The color came to his face and he laughed with a queer twist to his mouth. "Am I as horrible as all that, Bupps?" His words brought a lump to my throat.
It's clear that I should have more cattle. And if all goes well, I want a bank-barn, the same as they have in the East, with cement flooring and modern stalling. And I've got to comb over my herd, and get rid of the boarders and hatracks, and acquire a blooded bull for Alabama Ranch, to improve the strain.
The sick man was propped up in his bunk and playing solitaire, but he left off his occupation to groan as the new-comers came alongside. When the cause of the visit had been made known, however, he rebelled. "I won't pose for no camera fiend," he declared, loudly. "It ain't decent and I'm too sick. D'you take me for a bearded lady or a living skeleton?" "These men think you're stalling," Dr.
Talked to old Sudden over the 'phone, stalling along like I was the kid. Got away with it, at that. I'd like to see Tex " "Aw, Tex ain't in it with you.
But now he knew the hour was getting late. So far Greg and Johnny had been stalling Tawney ... but Tawney was getting impatient. He moved quickly and he thought again of what Tawney had said. Tawney was right about one thing ... there was no way that Dad could have hidden a Big Strike so nobody could find it. It had to be there.... And yet it wasn't. He and Greg hadn't found it.
"How would they know?" "Right," he said. He sighed. "Guess we're both a little out of our depth there. I've come close to getting impatient with them a few times had the feeling they were stalling me off and holding back information. But presumably they do know what they're doing." He glanced at his watch. "That hour's about up now, by the way."
"The Honourable George," I admitted, "has been known to do unexpected things, and there have been times when he was not as sensitive as I could wish to the demands of his caste " "Bill is stalling he knows darned well the Judge is a mixer," broke in Cousin Egbert, somewhat to my embarrassment, nor did any reply occur to me.
I have grown fond of makeshifts and make-believes and hedging, bluffing, stalling, jumping mental hurdles it's fun it keeps you alive and never weighing more than a hundred and ten pounds." Trudy rose to go. She was a chic little vixen in a fantastic costume of black velvet with a jacket of blush pink.
He was letting himself down through the manhole in the stable loft when Swan's voice, lowered almost to a whisper, startled him. "What the hell!" Lone ejaculated under his breath. "I thought you were on another trail!" "That trail leads here, Lone. Did you find Raine yet?" "Not a sign of her. Swan, I don't know what to make of it. I did think them two were stalling.
Confound it, Peasley, a man has to do some scheming and stalling when everybody is crowding him for money, doesn't he?" The check was not paid when Matt presented it the next morning.
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