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Emberg, eagerly. "I've got everything, I guess. I've got all but the main facts, anyhow. I don't know whether Potter was with them or not. I didn't think it was of any importance." "Importance!" exclaimed the city editor. Then he bethought him of Hogan's character, and knew it was useless to speak. "Everything but the facts the most important fact of all," Mr. Emberg murmured.
"Smith'll have some sense when he can't get any more," he shouted in Hogan's ear. Then after a moment, "Is there nobody else to take the watch?" "There's Dashalong, sir," bellowed Mike, "but he stood last night." "How about you?" inquired Leonard. "All roight." The Celt was about to turn for the high bridge at the stern, when Madden stopped him. "When was your last watch, Mike?"
"Johnny!" he shouted, and his companion popped up through the hatch like a jack-in-the-box. "Good boy, Johnny. Tie this coyote foreman like you did the others," he ordered. While Johnny obeyed, Hopalong looked around the circle, and his eyes rested on Hogan's face, studying it, and found something there which warmed his heart. "Friend, do you know the back trail?
He got th' house an' lot back an' a morgedge. But did ye iver notice th' scar on his nose? I was r-rough in thim days. Ol' Mike Hogan is another mimber. Ye know him. They say he hires constables be th' day f'r to serve five days' notices. Manny's th' time I see th' little furniture out on th' sthreet, an' th' good woman rockin' her baby under th' open sky. Hogan's tinants.
It is the real gang we've got cornered. Do you know just who they are?" "Those I saw were Hobart, 'Red' Hogan, the girl, a big fellow they called Mark who was on the yacht " "Mark Sennett; he's Hogan's side-kick, and tough as they make 'em." "And a wiry little black-haired devil by the name of Dave."
It stuck and Leonard started to their aid, when a hook in his own territory demanded his attention. Just then a head came up over the rail just above Hogan and Mulcher. The German had turned his automatic on the defenders when Hogan's shillalah caught him on the temple. He reeled backwards, his pistol spitting into the air.
Within a few days of your receipt of this letter, I look to have the honour of waiting upon you. In the meanwhile, honoured sir, believe that while I am, I am your obedient servant, Across the narrow table the two men's glances met Hogan's full of concern and pity, Crispin's charged with amazement and horror.
Stannard's waiting for you. She had early dinner, as there's to be a farewell hop to-night, and I've seen the colonel and you needn't report until afterwards. Come, man," called Blake, hurrying in; and so Hogan's ecstasies were cut short, and in a few moments more Mrs.
The value of Hogan's Wolf went up at once when he knew the importance of the occasion; besides, "he had conscientious scruples." All his scruples vanished, however, when his views as to price were met. His first care was to get Little Jim out of the way by sending him on an errand to his grandma's; then the Wolf was driven into his box and nailed in.
Upon this company burst Barney and Sam Mace from "Hogan's Corners." They were excited by the news and already inflamed with drink. "Say!" yelled Barney, "any o' you fellers know any-thing about Jim Sanford?" "No. Why? Got any money there?" "Yes; and I'm goin' to git it out, if I haf to smash the door in." "That's the talk!" shouted some of the loafers. They sprang up and surrounded Barney.
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