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Once before, if you'll remember no; that was before we got together, Mulready I picked up a fellow-countryman on the Strand. He was down and out, jumped at the job, and we made a neat little wad on it." "The more fool you, to take outsiders into your confidence," grumbled Mulready. "Ow?" interrogated Calendar, mimicking Stryker's accent inimitably.
Why, we might have baited a dozen traps and failed to lure them into my house, after that stout scoundrel knew you'd had the chance to tell me the whole yarn... Odd!" "Weren't you taking chances, you and Charles?" asked Kirkwood curiously. "Precious few. There was another motor from Scotland Yard trailing Captain Stryker's.
He said to write you fully, that nothing might be concealed. Stryker's letter is straight to the point. It is going to be the biggest Indian war the country has ever seen, and one in which there must be hard fighting. Armed, equipped, and supplied and mounted as those Sioux and Cheyennes are, it will take our best to thrash them.
A murmur of voices from below comforted him with the knowledge that he had not miscalculated, this time; at last he stood within striking distance of his quarry. The syllables of his surname ringing clearly in his ears and followed by Stryker's fleeting laugh, brought him to a pause.
Stryker's "American Register" for 1849:241. "The American Almanac" for 1850:324. "An Economic and Social History of New England," 11:825. Hunt's "Lives of American Merchants":139. Life of Eli Whitney, "Our Great Benefactors":567. Unfortunately only the most general and eulogistic accounts of the careers of most of the rich shippers have appeared in such biographies as have been published.
If neither my hearing nor Captain Stryker's car deceives me, our fiery chariot is panting at the door." A little sobered from the confident spirit of quiet gaiety in which they had dined, they left the table. Not that, in their hearts, either greatly questioned their ultimate triumph; but they were allowing for the element of error so apt to set at naught human calculations.
Accordingly I have telephoned him and commandeered the use of this machine mechanician, too.... Though not a betting man, I am willing to risk recklessly a few pence in support of my contention, that of the two, Captain Stryker's car and ours, the latter will prove considerably the most speedy....
Stryker's line, when she accidentally dropped a light shawl, which fell from her arm into the water; an involuntary movement she made as it fell, also threw a basket of her companion's flies overboard, at the same instant: he had just been showing them off. "Oh, Mr. Stryker, my shawl!" exclaimed the lady.
Stryker's keen, worldly scrutiny, her manner in the evening resumed entirely its wonted appearance; she was witty, graceful, piquant, and flattering as ever, and quite as much so with Hazlehurst as with any. "What do you say to a game of chess, Mrs. Creighton?" asked Mr. Wyllys. "With pleasure, sir; I am always at your service.
"Ow, they ain't much use to me, but Bill Stryker's allus willin' to accommodate a friend.... Four quid, you said?" "Five...." "They ain't wuth over four to me." "Very well; make it four," Kirkwood assented contemptuously. The captain swept the articles into one capacious fist, pivoted on one heel at the peril of his neck, and lumbered unsteadily off to his room.
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