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Updated: May 11, 2025
But they did not challenge it as did the flash of an apricot sweater, blood-red in the ruby lamplight, of a black and yellow cap, several yellow and black caps, suddenly eagerly thrust near. "He's big big for a garter, isn't he, Buddy?" remarked a voice that did not come from the ranks of Togetherers, of Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, excitedly scrutinizing Stud's novel armlet.
For Stud's hand was groping mechanically for the bright little lamp above his forehead, as if for inspiration, his left for the lariat at his waist, in defiance of his threat that the desperado in the "pot" might have tears in his eyes before he would help him. But there was something worse than cave-tears in question now of that Studart felt sure.
Ruddy, the slipslop explorer, had gone in heels over head, so to speak. He was hanging by the heels now. Nothing visible of him but those pinioned feet! "Hea-vens! he did strike a blind bargain. S-such a snag! The passage ends here. A drop! A blank fall of rock! Gee-ee!" Dank dank as cave-tears now was the moisture upon Stud's forehead. For the first time his teeth almost chattered.
Hence, Bertie had never felt the want of all that is bought by and represents money, and imbibed a vague, indistinct impression that all these things that made life pleasant came by Nature, and were the natural inheritance and concomitants of anybody born in a decent station, and endowed with a tolerable tact; such a matter-of-fact difficulty as not having gold enough to pay for his own and his stud's transit to the Shires had very rarely stared him in the face, and when it did he trusted to chance to lift him safely over such a social "yawner," and rarely trusted in vain.
"Beg pardon, sir," said the lofty attendant who took his overcoat, "your stud's come loose." "I bet the damn thing's going to do that all night," Quin said confidentially. "Say, you haven't got a pin, have you?" "Oh, no, sir, it couldn't be pinned," protested the man in a shocked tone. Quin adjusted it as best he could, took a final look at himself in the mirror, and proceeded downstairs.
She sprang up hurriedly, pointing to the boat below; to its one preoccupied figure, clad neither in rough sweater nor May-fly gaudiness, now, but, if the sunset didn't exaggerate, in a very becoming dark suit. "Humph! I don't know! I guess he is! Didn't think he could pull it off for some reason or other " Stud's shoulders were shrugged. "But, maybe, he's found where there's a will there's a way."
In the men's dressing-room he found a game of craps in progress, and, upon being asked to join, was so grateful for being included in any group that he accepted gladly, and for half an hour forgot his woes while he won enough to repay Cass the sum he had advanced on the dress-shirt. "Stud's undone, old chap," said his opponent as he paid his debt. "Thanks, so it is," said Quin nonchalantly.
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