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Updated: June 21, 2025
"I ain't got anything against Lorry personal," said the deputy. "Then just you ride back an' tell Buck Hardy that Bud Shoop says he'll stand responsible for Adams keepin' the peace in Jason County, same as I stood responsible for Buck oncet down in the Panhandle. Buck will remember, all right." "Can't you give me a letter to Buck, explainin' things?" queried the deputy. Bud glanced at Torrance.
Thereupon he took his farewell, and set out with Torrance for the Ferry, while Alan and I turned our faces for the city of Edinburgh. As we went by the footpath and beside the gate-posts and the unfinished lodge, we kept looking back at the house of my fathers.
"When I feel gloomy, I'm good and gloomy," said William to Lucien Torrance one sunshiny afternoon in June, as they sat together in Whimple's office, their respective "bosses" being out "on business," another way of saying that they had gone to the baseball match.
The contractor raised himself to his full height and frowned down on the smaller man. "You seem to misunderstand your position, Adrian Conrad. What did I hire you for?" "For quarter what I'm worth," replied Conrad caustically. Torrance blinked twice, then, coldly: "From the first of this month your pay will be four hundred a month. Now do what you're told or your pay stops instanter."
Besides, the Kennebunk must run off the coast, beyond the approved steamship lines, to a point where she could be joined by a naval vessel dragging the target. There were lectures on gunnery that day to the gun captains, and the boys off duty who were interested in the subject might listen to this instruction. Phil Morgan and Torrance availed themselves of the privilege.
Torrance accepted their banter with a pleased grin, and hurried to tell it word for word to Tressa and Adrian. Yet as darkness fell flashes of the old restraint held him silent and wondering. The solitude of the northern evening was making him a bit frightened of his success. Removing the old calabash pipe from his lips, he expectorated thoughtfully toward the grade.
Here are the addresses. You look after these four tenants every month; I'll take care of the others." And forthwith William Adolphus Turnpike set out, as he expressed it to Lucien Torrance, "to round up some coin for Mister Whimple's aunt." He was proud of the trust imposed in him, and could not forbear a parting shot at Lucien.
"We won't argue it. You know I know." "I hear rifles," said Koppy, looking from foreman to boss. "I come quick." He was, in his subtle way, demanding an explanation. "If you were half as keen over the knives and knuckle-dusters of them fellows of yours!" snapped Torrance. "Rifles kill far away. Knives perhaps not and only that far." He swung out a dexterous arm.
But the shack door up at the trestle was empty; Torrance and Tressa would be in the kitchen cleaning up. Thereupon Conrad set off at a run up the sloping path, watching intermittently the angry scene below. A hundred yards from the grade he put his fingers to his lips and whistled. Torrance came instantly to the door.
Then he got a sheet of paper and a pencil, and set to work writing and weighing every word; and at last touched a bell and had his clerk into the chamber. "Torrance," said he, "I must have this written out fair against to-night; and when it is done, you will be so kind as put on your hat and be ready to come along with this gentleman and me, for you will probably be wanted as a witness."
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