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First you come along and steal me, underhanded, then you grab his pet engineer before he has a chance to hire him back again. Just to top off the evening you publicly brand his confidential understrapper as a card cheat and thump him on the medulla oblongata " "Are you sure it wasn't the duodenum?" "Well, you hit him in a vital spot, and Gordon won't forget it."
Lester seemed a fine enough man in all conscience, and really, after Brander, why not? If a United States Senator could fall in love with Jennie, why not a business man? There was just one thing the child. "Has she told him about Vesta?" he asked his wife. "No," said Mrs. Gerhardt, "not yet." "Not yet, not yet. Always something underhanded. Do you think he wants her if he knows?
As the lawyer stopped to cast them another of those strange looks, a gleam from old Luke's sidewise eyes startled the man next him, who, shrugging a shoulder, passed the underhanded look on, till it had circled the board and stopped with the man sitting opposite the crooked sinner who had started it.
Fischer things went along seemingly well enough for a time, but as Elmer continued his underhanded work of taking things that did not belong to him, he became more and more bold, and Mrs. Fischer, not having Edwin to blame, was forced to see some of his faults.
Eing leaders some times get beat up so badly it's impossible to identify 'em at the morgue. But in time we'll smash the gang, and then if a feller goes up for ten, twenty or even thirty years he'll know there's no underhanded work goin' on and he can settle down to an honest life. The only way to stop crime in this country, Mr. Yollop, is to " "Thank you." " is to make EVERYBODY respect the law.
Anyhow, if Lathrop were foolish enough to sign the statement without reading it, I should know that he hadn't read it and I assure you that it wouldn't pass muster in any court of law." As Captain Falk was about to retort even more angrily, Kipping touched his arm and whispered to him. "Oh, well," he said with ill grace, "as you wish, Mr. Kipping. There's nothing underhanded about this.
Well, will you be good enough to tell me what the devil is the meaning of all this two-faced, underhanded conduct on your part?" He lowered his head, closed his thin lips and fumbled with the hem of his smock in a significantly sullen manner. It was evident that he meant to defy me.
"There's something underhanded going on here, and I propose to find out what it is," growled the Cap'n. "Noticed it, have you?" inquired Hiram, cheerfully. "I notice some things that I don't talk a whole lot about." "I'm glad you have," went on Hiram, serenely overlooking a possible taunt regarding his own reticence. "It's a part of the plot, and plot aforesaid is now ripe enough to be picked.
Let the best man of us have her. I'll play you a square game, and won't do any underhanded work. I'll do all of my courting of her in your presence, so you will have an equal opportunity. With that arrangement I don't see why our steamboat of friendship should fall overboard in the medicinal whirlpools you speak of, whichever of us wins out. "'Good old hoss! says Paisley, shaking my hand.
'It is so deplorably underhanded, said Mortimer. 'It is so unworthy of you, this setting on of such a shameful scout. 'We have changed the subject! exclaimed Eugene, airily. 'We have found a new one in that word, scout. Don't be like Patience on a mantelpiece frowning at Dolls, but sit down, and I'll tell you something that you really will find amusing. Take a cigar. Look at this of mine.
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