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He knew they could play football, he said, and they'd come to oblige him. "The eleven gathered on the front porch, all in togs and sweaters, principally provided and paid for by Sterzer.
And if you'll stand the waybill, Mr. Sterzer we'll have the best Pinkerton in Boston down here in three hours by special train. By the way, are you sure the thing IS lifted? Where was it? "Old Gabe kind of colored up, and give in that 'twas under his pillow. He always kept it there after the beds was made. "'Humph! grunts Brown. 'Why didn't you hang it on the door-knob? Under the pillow!
It sailed up and up in a long curve, began to drop, passed over the piazza roof, and out of sight. "'Lock your door, Miss Sterzer, sung out Fred Bearse 'Willie' for short. 'Lock your door and keep that ball. I think your father's paper is inside it. "As sure as my name is Barzilla Wingate, he had kicked that football straight through the open window into old Gabe's room."
They had tracked Sterzer to the Old Home House, and had put their new hand on the job of gettin' that agreement. Fust he'd tried to shine up to Grace, but the shine her part of it had wore off. Then he decided to steal it; and he done it, just how nobody knows. Snow, the detective, says he cal'lates Henry, the servant, is wiser'n most folks thinks, fur's that's concerned.
I saw you kick the goal that beat Haleton. Your reputation is worldwide. "Willie Fred Bearse, that is shook his head, sad and regretful. "'Thank you, Mr. Sterzer, says he, in his gentle tenor. 'I have no desire to be famous in athletics. My aspirations now are entirely literary. "Well, he's got his literary job at last, bein' engaged as sportin' editor on one of Gabe's papers.
And to think that I've kept it safe up to within a month of the trial, and now Grace Sterzer, you stop pattin' my head. I'm no pussy-cat! By the And so on, indefinite. "When he called his daughter Sterzer, instead of Robinson, I cal'lated he was loony, sure enough. But Peter T. slapped his leg. "'Oh! he says, as if he'd seen a light all to once. 'Ah, NOW I begin to get wise.
'Why, you idiot, it was IT! If Gordon's lawyers get that paper and they've been after it for a year then the fat's all in the fire. There's nothin' left for me to do but compromise. "When Peter T. mentioned the name of Gabriel Sterzer, me and Jonadab begun to see a light, too. 'Course you remember the bust-up of the Aluminum Trust everybody does. The papers was full of it.
Gordon and his crowd had done everything, short of murder, to get it; hired folks to steal it, and so on, because, once they DID get it, Gabe hadn't a leg to stand on he'd have to divide equal, which wa'n't his desires, by a good sight. The Sterzer lawyers had wanted him to leave it in their charge, but no he knew too much for that.
There'd been a row among the two leadin' stockholders, Gabe Sterzer and 'Major' Gordon. Them two double-back-action millionaires practically owned the trust, and the state 'twas in, and the politics of that state, and all the politicians. Each of 'em run three or four banks of their own, and a couple of newspapers, and other things, till you couldn't rest.
"But it seemed that Sterzer had held the trump card in the shape of the original agreement between him and Gordon. And he hung on to it like the Old Scratch to a fiddler.