This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...this nonsense--talking to me that way and threatening me! Put up that knife or I 'll throw it into the river, --and you after it." "Better try it!- Gid answered, defiantly. "I 'll talk as I please, spite of your bluster and pretended ignorance. I 've been turned off by Fred Melverton, --kicked out, --and all through ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...this nonsense--talking to me that way and threatening me! Put up that knife or I 'll throw it into the river, --and you after it." "Better try it!- Gid answered, defiantly. "I 'll talk as I please, spite of your bluster and pretended ignorance. I 've been turned off by Fred Melverton, --kicked out, --and all through you, Osk Ordway!" "You don't say!" Osk exclaimed. "I never believed that would happen, and I'm awful sorry. Did he miss the cider?" "Yes; and he missed something else, Osk Ordway!" Gid leveled at him a terrible look. Osk turned pale--so at least Gid thought, as he put the question Fred had put to him, --"Where is that prize cup?" "That prize cup!" Osk repeated, with real or feigned astonishment. "You don't mean--" "Yes, I do mean! The prize cup I was fool enough to show you, and you were dishonest enough to steal!" said Gideon. "You don't say that has been taken! You left it in the drawer; I saw you," Osk said rather weakly, as it seemed to Gid. "And nobody else saw me," Gid retorted. "Nobody else knew where to look for it. The cider and the cup are the only things Fred has missed. You know about the cider and you know about the cup." "Did you tell him that?" Osk inquired quickly. "No, I did n't. But I wish I had. I had denied touching the cider, or letting anybody into the house. Then when he said the cup had been taken, I could n't go back on my word. I wish now I had," Gid repeated, with bitter self-reproach. He related all that had happened in his interview with Fred, and again charged Osk with the robbery. Osk laughed scornfully. "The idea of my doing such a thing as that!" he exclaimed. &quo...
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