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"Take fifteen cents out of that," he said, with no idea that the boy could change the bill. For a moment Toddles glared at the yellow-back, then a thrill of unholy glee came to Toddles. He could just about make it, business all around had been pretty good that day, particularly on the run west in the morning.
Some varieties, as the blue yellow-back, the chestnut-sided, and the Blackburnian, during their brief stay, sing nearly as freely as in their breeding-haunts. For two or three years I have chanced to meet little companies of the bay-breasted warbler, searching for food in an oak wood on an elevated piece of ground.
He had made the evidence too complete. The world would call him a lying yellow-back if he betrayed what had actually happened on the trail between Cragg's Ridge and Mooney's cabin.
The other set they travel in well, it's the older men they meet round the swell hotels and so on the yellow-back men." "How queer!" exclaimed Mildred, before whose eyes a new world was opening. "But how do they these squabs account for the money?" "How do a thousand and one women in this funny town account at home for money and things?" retorted Mrs. Belloc. "Nothing's easier.
So we'll have luncheon, or lunch, just as you prefer, at twelve-thirty. That leaves me two hours and a half to read 'Old Nick Carter." Hemlock got out several yellow-back dime-novels from the book-rack in the corner, pulled the Morris chair over to the window, and started in on his light literature. "What! Aren't you worrying about the Puddingham cuff-buttons at all?
"Then you ought to have better judgment," returned Banneker with such candor and good-humor that the visitor was fairly discomfited. An embarrassing silence embarrassing, that is, to the older man; the younger seemed not to feel it was happily interrupted by the advent of the lily-clad messenger. Hastily retrieving his yellow-back, which he subjected to some furtive and occult manipulations, Mr.
Tact inspired Cressey to say at once: "Of course, that's all you had to consider. By the way, you haven't seen my revered uncle since you got here, have you?" "Mr. Vanney? No." "Better drop in on him." "He might try to give me another yellow-back," smiled the ex-agent. "Don't take Uncle Van for a fool. Once is plenty for him to be hit on the nose." "Has he still got a green whisker?" "Go and see.
Par les mille cornes d'u diable, I cannot whip him but I can kill him and if I went and the thing happens which I guess is going to happen " "Qui? Surely you will tell me " "Yes, I will tell you. Jacques Dupont knows that Elise has never stopped loving the Yellow-back. I do not believe she has ever tried to hide it from him. Why should she?
It was a bookcase this time; a flat packing-case, nailed to the wall, fitted with shelves, and curtained on the front. I rose and inspected the collection: fifty or sixty volumes altogether poetry, drama, popular theology, reference, and a few miscellaneous works; history meagrely represented, science and yellow-back fiction not at all.
And then there was a rending of cloth and of buttons and of pins as in one swift movement he tore the shirt from his own breast exposing to the eyes of Lac Bain blood-red in the glow of the winter sun, the crimson badge of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police! And above the gasp that swept the multitude, above the strange cry of the woman, his voice rose: "I am Reese Beaudin, the Yellow-back.
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