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"Hang'd if I know." "Company say anything?" "Not a word." "You telegraphed yesterday?" Yes, and the day before, too." "No answer?" "None-confound them!" Then there was a long pause. Finally both spoke at once: "I've got it!" "I've got it!" "What's yours?" said Harry. "Give the boys thirty-day orders on the Company for the back pay." "That's it-that's my own idea to a dot. But then but then "
The chatter over the tea-cups, the cheerful nonsense of that pleasure-seeking crowd might be a tonic. Anything was better than to sit at home and brood. A month passed. During that thirty-day period she received a brief note from Bill. Just a few lines to say: Hit the ranch yesterday, little person. Looks good to me. Have had Lauer do some work on it this summer.
I sent word to them both, at least I tried to, and rushed gayly down into Dixie. Perhaps you never heard of the bursting of that first Birmingham boom? It was an abrupt but very-complete smash. I came out of it owning two gorgeous suits of clothes, one silk hat, and an opulent-looking pocketbook, bulging with thirty-day options on corner lots.
April came and the first baseball game with it, and Saunders, our pitcher, managed to draw a thirty-day sentence for stealing a steam roller one noon and racing off down the avenue with a fat cop in pursuit. We nearly fell dead once more when Saunders came walking into chapel three days later.
"Nice kettle of fish for me, that was in line for a lieut. I ain't layin' it up again' you so much for the jolt; you're sure there with the punch, nor for the thirty-day space, neither, though with my family I can't afford that none. But, damn it, kid, you've broke me! With this here again' me I'll never be a lieut in a thousand years. I'm done!"
"Hang'd if I know." "Company say anything?" "Not a word." "You telegraphed yesterday?" "Yes, and the day before, too." "No answer?" "None-confound them!" Then there was a long pause. Finally both spoke at once: "I've got it!" "I've got it!" "What's yours?" said Harry. "Give the boys thirty-day orders on the Company for the back pay." "That's it-that's my own idea to a dot. But then but then "
At the end of a thirty-day period, they had reached no definite position in their calculations, and the Talsonian reported, as a medium between the two parties of scientists, that the work of the Ortolian had not reached a level that would make a scientific understanding possible.
For that reason I made a thirty-day trip on foot and reached the Landing with the winter well advanced. "Here I found I could not get what machinery I needed and I put off my project until the next season when the ice had gone out of the river. I returned to the States and in the following July I went back to the Landing ready to go down the river once more.
For years every police magistrate was an old Siwash man, and, though plenty of the boys would get arrested, there were never any thirty-day complications or anything of the sort. Two classes would meet on the main street and muss each other up. The police would arrest nine or ten of the ringleaders.
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