[Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories CHAPTER I 23/33
"But did Frisbee have any PROPERTY? Did he have any means of his own ?" "Property ?" echoed the bar-keeper with scornful incredulity.
"Property? Means? The only property and means he ever had was the free lunches or drinks he took in at somebody else's expense.
Why, the only chance he ever had of earning a square meal was when that fellow that was with you just now took him up and made him his partner.
And the only way HE could get rid of him was to kill him! And I didn't think he had it in him. Rather a queer kind o' chap,--good deal of hayseed about him.
Showed up at the inquest so glum and orkerd that if the boys hadn't made up their minds this yer Frisbee ORTER BEEN killed--it might have gone hard with him." "Mr.Corbin," said Colonel Starbottle, with a pained but unmistakable hauteur and a singular elevation of his shirt frill, as if it had become of its own accord erectile, "Mr.Corbin--er--er--is the distant relative of old Major Corbin, of Nashville--er--one of my oldest political friends.
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