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Updated: May 7, 2025
A man was lighting the hanging lamps, and Rathburn looked about through a haze of tobacco smoke at a cluster of crowded gaming tables, a short bar, cigar counter, and at the motley throng which jammed the small room. He grinned as he read the sign over the cash register: FREE DRINKS TO-MORROW "Swiped in broad daylight from the grand old State of Texas," he murmured aloud to himself.
The younger of the two men was horribly drunk, and it was clear that the others were trying to drag him home before trouble came. They swayed with him up and down, picked him up when he fell, swiped him in the face when he tried to embrace one of the women, and lurched with him deeper into the throat of the alley. Then suddenly the trouble came.
So intent was he upon the task of taking care of this particular shipment that he had forgotten the Superintendent, and started and almost stared at him when he shouted the observation that the messenger was a little late with his tree. "'Tain't mine," he said sadly, shaking his head. "B'longs to the fellow 't swiped your coat."
The plant's been shut down for the last two months, and there's only the watchman there, and he's 'squared. We gave the Pug two hours of solitary confinement to think it over and come across. We just asked him for the White Moll's address, so's we could get her and the sparklers she swiped at Old Luertz's place last night." Still Rhoda Gray did not speak for a moment.
Of course I know that you There! The little one has swiped at him at last!" After a time he resumed his oration. "Of course, I know that you are not reformed in the matter of this uproar and this remarkable consumption of bad wine. It is not that.
"She's doin' some special stunt for the paper," Stiles nodded after a little hesitation. "We've been good friends for quite a while, but there aint no reason why she should tell me all she knows, is there? She came to me yesterday an' asked me to keep an eye on your movements for a bit. She said you were workin' with Podmore an' that you an' him had swiped some envelope from Mr.
I worked in a lumber concern out there. Can you guess the rest? I swiped a hundred, Slady. Don't ask me why I did it I don't know I was crazy, that's all. So now what have you got to say?" he inquired with a kind of recklessness, releasing Tom's arm. "I ain't got anything to say," said Tom. "They don't know it yet, Tommy, but they'll know it Monday. The accountants are on the job Monday.
Jimmie Dale ran his hand in under the pillow. "If you ain't swiped them already they ought to be here!" he growled; "and if you have I'll ah!" A little chamois bag was in his hand. He laughed sneeringly at Thoms, opened the bag, allowed a few stones to trickle into his hand and then, without stopping to replace them, dashed stones and bag into his pocket. The door along the corridor crashed open.
Remember the little fire beside the track, when we was 'way up in the big hills? Remember the curve, like a snake unwindin' where she run round the hill, and nothin' beyond but space and the sun drippin' red in the ocean? Remember the chicken we swiped and et that night? And then the smokes and lookin' up at the stars? Remember that? Listen!
But the stare was unfocused; he must still be only half conscious. Drew had a fleeting prick of worry. Had Shannon heard anything he would remember? There was nothing to be done about that now. " ... and that’s the way it is." Drew sat on the stool which was the only other furnishing in the bath cubicle while Anse splashed and wallowed in the slab tub. The Texan swiped soap from his cheek.
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