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I saw it." "Oh!" I cried, with my hands over my eyes. "Why did it not strike you blind?" "And here," said Colonel Vorse, leading my steps to an old cabinet in an alcove, "ought to be the half of that little likeness I picked up as I ran.
To-night's changed everything for me, and you, too. You are goin' to stand by me, aren't you, Churn, through thick and thin?" "You bettcha life! For de whole of vot I'm vorth!" Kit's tone changed. She chuckled. "You may be worth a lot. You've married a rich heiress. See?" "Sh, girl! If Chuff comes spyin' on us we don't vant him to hear dat word 'married. He'd only laugh or vorse." "All right!
However, he confessed penitently that "the mattress had made him vorse nor a beast to the h-old crittur;" and that "he was cured of saving to the end of his days." I want some help in my stables. The work is easy enough, and you are used to horses, you know, in a sort of a way." Beck hesitated, and looked a moment undecided.
You put Matty's head to de schissors, an' take him all off, und you shteal den her monish. De peanuts is a pad pisness; but dis is so much vorse as it goes to de prison. Tell me, Tony, how is dis?" "I didn't steal it, he gave it to me; and I didn't touch Matty's hair," panted the prostrate Theodore. "He he he wanted me to do something for him, and he said he would give me that if I did it.
But if his tone was casual, his eyes were busy in sidelong study of the engineer, making a new appraisal and drawing fresh conclusions. Meanwhile several knots were being tied in the web of circumstance. Sorenson took his telephone and conversed briefly with Vorse, passing the information that he had just seen the three directors leaving for the east. So they were out of the way.
Burkhardt burst in, ax still in hand, eyes bloodshot with rage. Vorse turned and closed the front door. Then he glanced over the lawyer's table and ran a hand into his inside coat pocket bulging with documents. He glanced through one or two. "Here's what we're after," said he. "We'll take him to my place where we can quietly settle the matter." His eyes rested on the Mexican with ominous meaning.
And I remembered all this as Colonel Vorse stood leaning his hand above me on the jamb of the window-frame for although I was tall, he was a son of Anak with that air which, never vaunting strength, always made you aware of its repression. I could fancy hearing Mrs.
Lou, and little Lou, spattering rice and potato all over himself and his chair, and big Lou, silently, deeply admiring them both. Then there were two empty chairs, for the Chisholms, the resident manager and superintendent and his sister, at the end of the table; and then Joe Vorse, the switchboard operator, and his little wife; and then Monk White, another shift boss; and lastly, at Mrs.
Never went properly to school because her family traveled widely, but studied art in Paris at several academies. She is most interested in radical thought, especially as expressed in the radical wing of the labor movement. Married Albert W. Vorse, 1898; Joseph O'Brien, 1912. First story, "The Boy Who Didn't Catch Things," Everybody's Magazine, June, 1904.
Just a few good men at night, masked and working fast, and the thing is done." "I'll not feel easy till it's over." "Keep up your nerve, Judge," Burkhardt grunted. "You used to be as lively as anybody when you were young." "I know, I know. But this Weir isn't going to stand idle. If he ever gets a chance with his gun " "He won't get it," said Vorse.
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