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He's in his prime yet; he could still walk a stringer on a black night, and while you are here at the Fort he's yours as much as you want to use him." Jim's cup was filled to overflowing. Their midday meal over, a ride was in order; first around the Fort among the men Captain Wayne, Osier Mike, Scout Al Rennie then out over the sagebrush flat.
Dunbar finished his whisky, and quietly replaced the glass upon the table, looking from Sowerby to Stringer with unmistakable significance. Stringer emptied his glass of rum, and Sowerby disposed of his stout. "I got thith letter lath night," continued the breeches-maker, bending forward confidentially over the table.
Toogood, as he entered the hotel, had seen Mr Stringer so placed, through the two doors, which at that moment had both happened to be open. He knew therefore that his old friend the waiter had not been quite true to him in suggesting that his master was not as yet down.
A rolling cheer burst from the bleachers, and swelled till McCall overran third base and was thrown back by the coacher. Stringer hurried forward with his big bat. "Oh! My!" yelled a fan, and he voiced my sentiments exactly. Here we would score, and be one run closer to that dearly bought pennant. How well my men worked together!
He financed me, from the start; but he kept this claim for himself without putting it in with the rest. Well, as luck would have it, when we sunk on the ledge, it turned at right angles up the hill. Up and down, she went it was the main lode of quartz and we'd been following in on a stringer and rich? Oh, my, it was rotten!"
Wasn't there some directory of clergymen's names? she was sure this was a clergyman, nobody else would have a library of such weighty volumes. Her fingers ran along the shelves and presently she found what she wanted Crocker's Clergy List of 1879. She opened the book and presently found, "Stringer, Laurence Thomas Benjamin, Vicar of Upper Staines, Deans Folly, Upper Reach Village, near Staines."
Stringer hammered away with fierce and reiterated invective. He had no hope of defeating the bill, but he confidently believed that he was putting his adversary, the Governor, in a hole. It had been noised about the lobbies by the friends of the measure earlier in the session that the Governor was all right and could be counted on.
"The name of my clerk?" said Mr Stringer. "Why do you want to know the name of my clerk?" "Does he ever pay your rent for you?" "Well, yes; he does, at times. He pays it into the bank for the lady as owns this house. Is there any reason for your asking these questions, sir. It isn't usual, you know, for a stranger, sir."
Knock followed knock in quick succession, and after the usual amount of fluttering in the hall, the greengrocer flung open the drawing-room door and ushered in Dr and Mrs Patrick, Miss Stringer, and half a dozen other arrivals. Our two heroes, sitting side by side, unnoticed on the edge of the sofa, had full opportunity to take stock of the various guests, most of whom were strangers to them.
As Toogood cast a glance of his eye on the man with the red nose, he told himself the old story of the apparition under the archway. "Mr Stringer," said Mr Toogood to the landlord, "I hope I'm not intruding." "Oh dear, no, sir," said the forlorn man. "Nobody ever intrudes coming in here. I'm always happy to see gentlemen, only, mostly, I'm so bad with the gout."
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