[Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes]@TWC D-Link bookCopper Streak Trail CHAPTER IX 5/28
Who ?" "Did, too! William Vaughn Moody.
So I say 'Ha!' in the deepest and fullest meaning of the word; and I will so defend it with my life." "If you were good and married once, you might not be such a fool," said Sedgwick hopefully. "Take any form but this"-- Mr.Boland inflated his chest and held himself oratorically erect--"and my firm nerves shall never tremble! I have tracked the tufted pocolunas to his lair; I have slain the eight-legged galliwampus; I have bearded the wallipaloova in his noisome den, and gazed into the glaring eyeballs of the fierce Numidian liar; and I'll try everything once--except this.
But I have known too many too-charming girls too well.
To love them," said Francis Charles sadly, "was a business education." He lit a cigar, clasped his hands behind his head, tilted his chair precariously, and turned a blissful gaze to the little rift of sky beyond the crowding maples. Mr.Boland was neither tall nor short; neither broad nor slender; neither old nor young.
He wore a thick mop of brown hair, tinged with chestnut in the sun.
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