Sunday, November 4, 2012

  He expectorated--scornfully this time

  He expectorated--scornfully this time. He was a man slow by natureto receive ideas, but slower to rid himself of one that hadcontrived to force its way into what he probably called his brain,fake uggs usa.
  He had decided on the evidence that I was Smooth Sam Fisher, andno denials on my part were going to shake his belief. He looked onthem merely as so many unsportsmanlike quibbles prompted by greed.
  'Tell it to Sweeney!' was the form in which he crystallized hisscepticism.
  'May be you'll say youse ain't trailin' de Nugget, huh?'
  It was a home-thrust. If truth-telling has become a habit, onegets slowly off the mark when the moment arrives for the prudentlie. Quite against my will, I hesitated. Observant Mr MacGinnisperceived my hesitation and expectorated triumphantly.
  'Ah ghee!' he remarked. And then with a sudden return to ferocity,'All right, you Sam, you wait! We'll fix you, and fix you good!
  See,cheap jordans? Dat goes. You t'ink youse kin put it across us, huh? Allright, you'll get yours. You wait!'
  And with these words he slid off into the night. From somewhere inthe murky middle distance came a scornful 'Hawg!' and he was gone,leaving me with a settled conviction that, while I had frequentlyhad occasion, since my expedition to Sanstead began, to describeaffairs as complex, their complexity had now reached its height.
  With a watchful Pinkerton's man within, and a vengeful gang ofrivals without, Sanstead House seemed likely to become anunrestful place for a young kidnapper with no previous experience.
  The need for swift action had become imperative.
II
White, the butler, looking singularly unlike a detective--which, Isuppose, is how a detective wants to look--was taking the air onthe football field when I left the house next morning for abefore-breakfast stroll. The sight of him filled me with a desirefor first-hand information on the subject of the man Mr MacGinnissupposed me to be and also of Mr MacGinnis himself. I wanted to beassured that my friend Buck, despite appearances, was a placidperson whose bark was worse than his bite.
  White's manner, at our first conversational exchanges, wasentirely that of the butler. From what I came to know of himlater, I think he took an artistic pride in throwing himself intowhatever role he had to assume.
  At the mention of Smooth Sam Fisher, however, his manner peeledoff him like a skin, and he began to talk as himself, a racy andvigorous self vastly different from the episcopal person hethought it necessary to be when on duty.
  'White,' I said, 'do you know anything of Smooth Sam Fisher?'
  He stared at me. I suppose the question, led up to by no previousremark, was unusual,fake uggs for sale.
  'I met a gentleman of the name of Buck MacGinnis--he was ourvisitor that night,moncler womens jackets, by the way--and he was full of Sam. Do youknow him?'
  'Buck?'
  'Either of them.'
  'Well, I've never seen Buck, but I know all about him. There'spepper to Buck.'
  'So I should imagine. And Sam?'
  'You may take it from me that there's more pepper to Sam's littlefinger than there is to Buck's whole body. Sam could make Bucklook like the last run of shad, if it came to a showdown. Buck'sjust a common roughneck. Sam's an educated man. He's got brains.'

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