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"You mean he salted you?" "In the elevator, of course." "It come to me, that was the way of it when he sprung that bunk stuff about you coarsely loading said loot into your coat-tail," admitted the detective. "That didn't sound sensible, even if you did have a skirt to fuss into a cab. The ordinary vest-pocket of commerce would've kept it just as close, besides being more natural easy to get at.
She stepped quickly to the head of the cot, took the blanket out, refolded it with a few deft, womanly motinos, and replaced it with a cool surface uppermost. "O, that is SO good," murmured the boy, half-unclosing his eyes. "It's just as mother would've done." Dr. Denslow looked earnest approval. Rachel began to feel an interest kindling in her work.
"I would have done all I could, Martin. I would have loved you fondly and truly. I would have liked what you liked, and, av I could, I would've made your home quiet and happy. Your mother should have been my mother, and your sisthers my sisthers." "So they are now, Anty so they are now, my own, own Anty they love you as much as though they were."
"I said, 'What's the difference, any of us would've done it if we had the chance." "Whiting's gun had been fired?" asked the attorney, working back. "Yes." "One question more and I will excuse you," said the attorney, with a show of friendliness "I see it is hard for you to testify against your friend.
Scorning to render his state degrading by useless remonstrances, the youth remained where his accusers had seen fit to place him firm, motionless, and silent. "What would've have?" the Rover was at length heard to say, in a voice that even his iron nerves scarce rendered deep and full-toned as common. 'What ask ye?" "Their lives!" "I understand you; go; they are at your mercy."
"If if fate or something hadn't brought you here to-day I don't know what would've happened to Betty and me. ..." "Never mind," Duncan tried to soothe him. "Just don't you think about it." Graham shook his head, still bewildered. "Perhaps," he stumbled on, "to a gentleman of your wealth four hundred dollars isn't much " "No," said Duncan gravely, without the flicker of an eyelash: "nothing."
It was easy to see that the iterated thanks were distasteful to him. He said nothing until the jubilant Cato also made a spring at it as soon as it was released. "Nebber mind nottin' Oonomoo do nottin'." "Hebens, golly! yes, you did. If you hadn't come jes' as you did, I'd had to fout de Injines all alone, single-handed, widout any feller to help me, and, like as not, would've got hurt."
Ef he moves a step, I'll put a bullet through his brain! Fortner would've run in spite o' him, but I wuz so skeered for him thet I jumped ter his side an' ketched his arm. "'Keep quiet, honey, I said. 'Likely they won't find yer daddy at all. "Vain hope! Ez I spoke, the sound o' David's ax rung out clearly and steadily. The cannons at Wildcat, yesterday, didn't sound no louder ter me.
One of the technicians came in, wiping his forehead with a big blue bandana. "Well, there she goes. Mr. Sorensen, if that thing is dangerous, hadn't we better back off a little way from it?" "It isn't dangerous," Sorensen said. "Nothing's going to happen." The technician looked unhappy. "Then I don't see why we couldn't've tested the thing back in the shop. Would've been a lot easier there.
Of course, people got to avoiding him and shaking their heads and whispering, because, the way he was looking and acting, they judged he had killed somebody or done something terrible, they didn't know what, and if he had been a stranger they would've lynched him.
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