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Bastin, for his part, arrayed himself in full clerical costume, black coat and trousers, white tie and stick-up clergyman's collar which, as he remarked, made him feel extremely hot in that climate, and were unsuitable to domestic duties, such as washing-up. I offered to hold his coat while he did this office and told him he looked very nice indeed.
"Forgive me this time!" he implored. "It's going to be right, just as soon as as I find the buttonholes." "There aren't any. They're loops." "Oh, those tiny little stick-up things, like loosened threads?" "Yes. You'll see it's quite easy, after the first." Oh, was it indeed?
He knows that some day unless he is shot first his Judas will set to work, the trap will be laid, and he will be the surprised instead of a surpriser at a stick-up. That is why the man who holds up trains picks his company with a thousand times the care with which a careful girl chooses a sweetheart.
V. with no idea of where to go. After much wandering, he eventually found the Sixth Form room. He entered; someone outside had told him to go in there. A long row of giants in stick-up collars confronted him. The Chief sat on a chair reading a lecture on the Maccabees. All eyes seemed turned on him.
You remember that charge of stick-up and attempted murder of a Chicago guy that the police are trying to land Larry on? I put that over! I'm the party that was messed up in that. I was trying to put over a neat little job all on my own; but something went wrong just as I thought I was cleaning out the sucker, and I had to be rough with that Chicago guy in order to make a get-away from him.
"The last week has put lots of water in all the cricks," offered old man Adams from his place by the fire. "Then with this cloud-bust an' downpour today, it ain't real nice travellin'. That would be about all that's holdin' Hap up. An' I'm tellin' you why: Did you ever hear a man tell of a stick-up party on a night like this? No, sir!
Before he had taken his chair again Dalton said abruptly, turning upon the girl: "Pollard mentioned your seeing the stick-up man at Harte's cabin. Tell us about it." She told him swiftly, eager to have it over with, conscious that the eyes of all three of the men watched her with a very intense interest.
"We're in quest of a bag of rice a bag with a rip in it and 'W. K. on the side. While I slap your pockets, just to see if you're ironed, these gentlemen are goin' to look over your outfit." "This is an outrage!" Jim McCaskey complained. "I'm just getting over one stick-up. I'm a sick man." "Sure!" his brother exclaimed, furiously. "You're a pack of fools! What d'you want, anyhow?"
"I was thinking," Lee answered coolly, "that the stick-up gent will most probably figure on a play like that. If he was real wise he'd mosey along toward Rocky Bend and pop off your second man. Two thousand bucks a day would make a real nice little draw." Judith paused, frowning. There was truth in that.
This afternoon, while the Jap was out in the grounds, three stick-up men jumped him. He bumped one of them off with his hands and the others with his gat one of those big automatics that throw a slug like a cannon. None of us knew he had it. That's all, except that I am quitting Prescott right now. Anything else I can do for you, whoever you are?" "No. Your job's done." The conversation closed.
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