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Updated: June 25, 2025
And then the dog would change into a bow-legged policeman swingin' a night-stick threatenin'. All of which a barber friend of Henry's told him meant trouble in the pot and that he must beware of a false friend who came across the water. The barber got it straight from a dream book, and there must be something in it, for hadn't Henry been done out of $3 by a smooth talkin' guy from Staten Island?
Her impulse to strike may have been for the moment and no longer, or she may have read swiftly no unkindness in the mountaineer's steady look; for the uplifted oar was stayed in the air, as though at least she would hear him. "I've got nothin' ag'in' you," he said, slowly, "Jas Lewallen hev been threatenin' me, 'n' I thought it was him, 'n' I was ready fer him, when you come into the mill.
"Got to move quietly in this country," he said, "if you are going to keep alive." A moment or so he stood by Barry's side, looking up with him at the stars. "No fuss, up there," he said, interpreting Barry's mood and attitude. "Not like that there pitchin', tossin', threatenin' water."
See what a calamity was a threatenin us. Why, I declare to you all, thar was a time when I expected to see our aged friend Solomon no more in the flesh. You could not tell it by my manner, for I presarved a calm an collected dumeanour; but yet, I tell you, underneath all that icy calm an startlin good-natur of my attitood, I concealed a heart that bet with dark despair.
I had the good luck to unearth at Dry Valley the man who had written threatenin' letters to my uncle an' to discover that he was stayin' next door to the Paradox the very night of the murder. More, my friend Sanborn an' I guessed he had actually been on the fire escape of the Wyndham an' seen somethin' of importance through the window. Later I forced a statement from Olson.
Olson gave a snort of dry, splenetic laughter. "And you're out here sellin' registered Herefords." "I have some for sale. But that's not why I came to see you." "Why did you come, then?" asked the Scandinavian, his blue eyes hard and defiant. "I wanted to have a look at the man who wrote the note to James Cunningham threatenin' to dry-gulch him if he ever came to Dry Valley again."
"He's allus been threatenin' what kairosene and matches would do to barns; and it wouldn't be no satisfaction to send 'Liah Luce to State Prison he ain't account enough. It wouldn't pay the loser for a stand of buildin's havin' him there." Cap'n Sproul began to understand some of the sane business reasons that guaranteed the immunity of Aholiah Luce, so long as he stuck to petty thieving.
"Ye see, the bridge hes been shakin' wi' this winter's flood, and we daurna venture on it, sae we hev tae ford, and the snaw's been meltin' up Urtach way. There's nae doot the water's gey big, and it's threatenin' tae rise, but we 'ill win through wi' a warstle.
Hubbard, eyin' the crowd doubtful, "I hardly believe I care to " "Ah, I'll clear 'em out in two shakes," says I. "Just follow after me. Hey, you! Heim gagen. Mushong! Gangway, gangway!" and I motions threatenin'. "Ah, beat it, you garlic destroyers!" I sings out. "Back up there, and take your feet with you!
If you send me to any orphan-asylum, I'll send you to some place where you'll be better off, too, sir." "Meanin'?" Peter Champneys shot at the stout vestryman a glance like the thrust of a golden spear. "The cemetery, Mr. McMasters," said he, with the deadly South Carolina gentleness. The two stared at each other. It wasn't the boy's glance that fell first. "Threatenin' me, hey?
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