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This he unscrewed with a wrench, thrust in a rod and drew it out again. "'Bout forty gallon," he announced. "Thet's 'nough fer a starter, I guess." "Then put some of it into the machine. Is there any oil?" "Plenty oil." Half an hour later Bub started the engine and rolled the car slowly out of its shed to the graveled drive in the back yard. "All right, mister," he announced with satisfaction.
"A hundred and twenty-five's plenty enough for a good starter at the Millersville Normal," said the doctor. "But," Tillie hesitated, "this is April, and the spring term closes in three months. What should I do and where could I go after that? If I made such a break with father, he might refuse to take me home even if I had nowhere else to go. Could I risk that?"
For Miss Bird had lived in the house for nearly thirty years, and had acted as educational starter to the whole race of young Clintons, to Dick, Humphrey, Walter, Cicely, and Frank, and had taken a new lease of life when the twins had appeared on the scene with the expectation of a prolonged period of service.
He said so himself, and that there wasn't one chance in a million for him or any other white man to catch it, though he confessed afterward that one of his school chums, Alfred Starter, had contracted it, gone to Molokai, and there died. "You know, in the old days," Kersdale explained, "there was no certain test for leprosy. Anything unusual or abnormal was sufficient to send a fellow to Molokai.
Warren, I'm going to spend a lot of money. Put this draft for fifty thousand to my credit as a starter." "Ah, I begin to understand. But " "You don't understand at all, yet. May I use your long distance telephone?" "Of course, sir." Uncle John had secured considerable information from Mr. Watson, and this enabled him to act comprehensively.
He tells me that all the St. Vrain money, which he controls by the terms of my father's will, he can give to the Church, if he chooses, and leave me disinherited." "We don't mind that a bit as a starter up in Kansas. Come out on our prairies and try it," I suggested. "But, Gail, that isn't all.
"Not that it pays for the work you did, for you saved me a good many hundred dollars by pulling that barge out of the way. But this is only a starter. I understand your engine is not yet paid for, and that you have no uniforms. Please use the check for that purpose. You will also hear further from me in a few days.
The lights were fine, plenty of juice. "Don't know," he said. "Could be the starter. I don't think a jump will do it." Jacky called triple A. An older man went through the same procedure and then hoisted the truck behind his wrecker. "Ride home?" Oliver asked. "If you don't mind," Jacky said. "South Portland." "Right in my direction," Oliver said.
Those big fellows in the tall hats are old Parkhurstians, come to see the young generation go through its paces, and that little knot of men talking together in the middle of the ground consists of the starter, judge, and umpire.
Daisy made her daily shopping trip to a little topside daytime store and started painting a mural on the floor of the empty apartment next theirs but one. "We ought to lasso some neighbors," she suggested once. "I need somebody to hold my brushes and admire. How about you making a trip below at the cocktail hours, Gusterson, and picking up a couple of girls for a starter?
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