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Updated: May 31, 2025
It's the kind of an outfit to kill a coward for the pure pleasure of it, if I'm not mistaken." "Well," said the man in the swing-chair, calmly, "maybe you need a little killing, Howard. Had you ever thought of that?" A gray look came into Lidgerwood's face. "Maybe I do." A little silence supervened. Then Ford plunged into detail.
"That the numbers, or the initials, or both, were wrongly reported. It means that it was a put-up job to steal the lumber." "Exactly. And there was a mixed car-load of lime and cement lost at about the same time, wasn't there?" "Yes." Lidgerwood's swing-chair "righted itself to the perpendicular with a snap."
Hardly worth wasting their time over, though." And here I'd been boostin' the Rowley proposition to Mr. Robert good and hard, almost gettin' him enthusiastic over it! I was smeared, that's all! My first stab at makin' myself useful in my new swing-chair job has been brushed aside as a beginner's bungle; and there sits Mr.
Robert comes in from his lawyer session just before closin' time; rubbin' his hands sort of satisfied too. "Well," says I, jumpin' up from the swing-chair, "it was some jolt you slipped Aunty. I expect I can resign now?" "Oh, I trust not," says he. "The board indorsed your appointment an hour ago. Keep your desk, Torchy. It is to be yours from now on." "Wh-a-a-at?" says I, my eyes bugged.
Baxter delighted in that warm, cosy little 'WE; it took her into the firm so pleasantly. She was a weak prop indeed when it came to cows, but all the courage in her soul rose to arms when Elisha said, "What shall WE do next?" She became alert, ingenious, strong, on the instant. "What is the cow's name?" she asked, sitting up straight in the swing-chair.
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