[Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes]@TWC D-Link book
Copper Streak Trail

CHAPTER V
20/26

Then, to use the words of the impulsive Hotspur, slightly altered to suit the occasion, I'll creep upon him while he lies asleep, and in his ear I'll whisper--Snooks!" "You don't know where he lives," said Zurich.
"Ah, but you do! I beg your pardon, Zurich--perhaps in my thoughtlessness I have wounded you.

I used the wrong pronoun.

I did not mean to say 'I'-- much less 'you'-- in reference to who should hollo 'Halves!' to our sleeping benefactor.

'We' was the word I should have used." Zurich regarded Mr.Dewing in darkling silence; and that gentleman, in no way daunted, continued gayly: "I see that the same idea has shadowed itself to you.

You must consider us--Eric and I--equals in that enterprise, friend Mayer.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books