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"I'd have hammered the life out of Andy Gilmore!" he said, as he tossed the ugly bludgeon from him. "You haven't told me where you have been," said Langham, and once more he pressed close to Montgomery, so close their elbows touched. The handy-man moved a little to one side. "Where ain't I been, you better ask, boss," he said.
"I hope I may die if I ain't as sober as you this minute, boss!" returned the handy-man impressively. "Well, what do you know or think you know?" asked Gilmore with affected indifference. "Boss, did I ever lie to you?" demanded Montgomery. "If you did I never found you out." "And why? You never had no chance to find me out; for the reason that I always tell you the almighty everlastin' truth!"
If Gilmore and Marshall Langham could juggle with John North's life, what of his own life when the judge should have become their ally! "Me and you'll have to fix up what I got to say, boss!" he added with a cunning grin. "Do you mean you wish to make a statement to me?" asked the judge. The handy-man nodded. The judge hesitated. "Perhaps we would better send for Mr. Moxlow?" he suggested.
I have a brother-in-law on the Stock Exchange, but he won't own me. Look at my clothes? Is it likely?" No. 8. Slept here four nights running. Is a builder's labourer by trade, that is, a handy-man. Had a settled job for a few weeks which expired three weeks since. Has earned nothing for nine days. Then helped wash down a shop front and got 2s. 6d. for it. Does anything he can get. Is 46 years old.
Rattray, who was a good carpenter and shoemaker and general handy-man, "far better accomplishments than a college education for the African field." She did not, of course, depreciate culture, so long as practical qualities of heart and hand went with it.
The tone of the age, its movement, the mingling of races and classes in the dollar hunt, the fiery and not quite unromantic struggle for existence, with its changing trades and scenery, and two types in particular, that of the American handy-man of business and that of the Yankee merchant sailor we agreed to dwell upon at some length, and make the woof to our not very precious warp.
Besides, she did not want to lose the money in prospect. If she were prevented from appearing in New York, there was no chance for her anywhere in the United States. It was useless to oppose the girl's obstinate will. Whether or no, to his unspoken disgust, Frederick had to perform messenger and handy-man services for the little star.
"I seen more rotten cities and more rotten towns and more rotten country than you can shake a stick at; God A'mighty knows what's the good of it I dunno! Everybody I seen was strangers to me, never a face I knowed anywhere; Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver to hell with 'em all, boss; old Mount Hope's good enough for me!" And the handy-man shrugged his huge slanting shoulders.
'Tain't so to say comforable for a grown man to feel that; but it's what you'll come to, young muster, if you gits your will to go free as free! and Binks set to work on his refractory carrots with renewed energy. There was something so quaint about Binks, the old handy-man, that nobody resented his preachings at them. Not the Carnegy boys, at least, not even Alick, who was no fool.
"Then I'll tell you who you saw," said the gambler coolly; "it was Marshall Langham." The handy-man swore a great oath. "You've guessed it, boss! You've guessed it." "It ain't a guess as it happens." "Boss, do you mean to tell me you knew all along?" demanded Montgomery incredulously. "Yes." "But what about North?" "That's his lookout, let him clear himself."
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