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Cuthbert, who was many kinds of a barometer, sought her out later in the courtyard. "Your husband's feeling tiptop, isn't he?" said he. "He's been locked up with old Wing all day. Something's in the wind, and I'd give a good deal to know what it is." "I'm afraid I can't inform you," replied Honora. Mr. Cuthbert apologized. "Oh, I didn't mean to ask you far a tip," he declared, quite confused.
Here was the germ of a tiptop drama. But all this worry was doubtless being wasted upon mere supposition. Jane might turn over the beads without bargaining, provided the father had any legal right to them, which Dennison strongly doubted. He approached Ling Foo and seized him roughly by the arm. "What do you know about these glass beads?" Ling Foo elevated a shoulder and let it fall.
Even the dead woman's papers, if she possessed any, had disappeared. Not a letter, not a scrap of paper even, to be met with. From time to time Gevrol stopped to swear or grumble. "Oh! it is cleverly done! It is a tiptop piece of work! The scoundrel is a cool hand!" "Well, what do you make of it?" at length demanded the investigating magistrate. "It is a drawn game monsieur," replied Gevrol.
Jonadab was steerin' less crooked every minute and it tickled him; you could see that. "'Answers her hellum tiptop, don't she? he says. "'Bet your life! says Bradbury. 'Better put on a little more speed, hadn't we?" He put it on himself, afore the new pilot could stop him, and we commenced to move.
Her cargo space was littered up with a number of grain chutes, which would have to come out; and her boats, which had been stored in the empty hold aft, away from the weather, were in tiptop shape. She had a spare anchor, plenty of chain, wire cable and Manila lines, though these latter would doubtless have to be renewed in their entirety, owing to deterioration from age.
"Of course I did." And the amazing creature patted me on the back. I performed the introductions. Mr. Fendihook declared himself delighted to make the acquaintance of my friends. Then as conversation did not start spontaneously, he once more looked around, nodded at the landscape approvingly, and once more said "Tiptop!"
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill.
Drop in and see my mother, and tell her I am well, and had a tiptop voyage over. No more at present from "Your affectionate friend, "THOMAS HOWARD." Katy read the letter twice over, and then gave it to her mother, after explaining that she had told Tommy her story, and requested him to inquire about her grandfather. Mrs.
Ballard told me he came with tiptop letters from officers of rank in San Francisco, who said he was incorruptible, even when he drank, whereas my clerk, who had been a model of sobriety, robbed right and left. Case has gone off now, somewhere down among the willows, I reckon. He'll be drunk for three days, sobering three days, and straight the seventh.
His conscience smote him when he thought of the suspicions he had cherished, and there was a sudden revulsion. "After all," thought he, "Jack Carter is a good fellow. He don't look it, to be sure, but a man can't help his looks What is it the poet says, 'A man may smile and be a villain still. Jack's a rough customer, but he's treatin' Ben and me tiptop."
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