Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Name: Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard — Hit the Line Hard : Chapter 9
Author: Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

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“Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard — Hit the Line Hard : Chapter 9”, published in 1920, is a work by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. It explores elements such as Baca, Ducky and Drake.

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ Baca snapped his fingers.
"My dear young friend, I do not care that for your inference! Be well guided. Leave Saragossa to-day and never come back. The money for your cattle will be forthcoming when you send a deed; get some lawyer or a bank to attend to the details of exchange."
"Oh! By the way, how about that mortgage of mine?" inquired Neighbor.
"Pray accept my apologies, Mr. Jones. I charged you with insolence: you are merely impudent. You grow wearisome. Your caliber is about twenty-two short, Jones!" said Baca, tapping a monitory finger with a pencil. "I am no man to get gay with. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ Baca. I only wanted to draw you." He looked up and smiled. "You see, we knew all the time that you fellows had Drake's money," he said chattily. "My proposition was to make you tip your hand—to convince Mr. Ducky that my reasoning was strictly O. K., if not logical."
Mr. Baca received this rather staggering communication point-blank but, aside from a heightened color, bore up under it with surprising spirit. Indeed, he seemed less disconcerted than Ducky Drake.
"Ah!" said the lawyer. "You don't lose much time in getting to the point, do you? ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ I'll make Baca commit himself so deep that it will amount to a full confession. You still don't quite believe what you think. When I am done with him you'll have no doubts. That's your great trouble, son—you don't think hard enough. You don't concentrate. You will not give to the matter in hand the full impact of your mind. You think straight enough but you haven't got the punch."
Baca lifted a sarcastic eyebrow at Ducky's presence and bent a questioning look on Neighbor Jones, but showed them into the curtained room of the previous night's conference. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ Every tendency and every fact pulls against it like the force of gravity at four p.m. I'm not particularly bitter against my own dear little sins, but I do believe that, in the long run, the way of the transgressor is really hard."
There came a tap at the door; Mr. Jones was wanted at the phone.
"Hello! This is Baca!" the telephone said; and could Mr. Jones step up to the house? It thought that matters might be arranged. "Inmediatamente!" said Mr. Jones, and hung up.
"Now, Ducky," he counseled, as they walked uptown, "you notice close, and I'll show you some diplomacy. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ Neighbor blinked mildly.
"Oh, well! When two men play at one game one of 'em has to lose!" he said philosophically. "Never mind about the mortgage. I've got no family anyway; so where's the diff? You win!" ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ You send the money for the cattle on to Albuquerque to-morrow, and we will both pass our words that we'll never, after this day and hour, try to recover the Drake money from you or make any claim to it. Yes, we will, Ducky. Do as I say and save your cow money. You can't collect a cent from Bennett and Baca, and there's no use in trying. ... All right—he'll promise if you will, Baca. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ He hurried in, thrust a bill into the hotelkeeper's hand and grabbed up the suit case, now his own, which had once belonged to the Kansas City Kid. The car trundled them to the station just in time to buy tickets.
"Well, good-by, Baca! Oh, say! Here's a V I borrowed from Beck. Wish you'd give it to him as you go back uptown, and tell him I'm much obliged. Give him my best. He sleeps up over the joint, you know."
"All right; I'll hand it to him. Hi! You're forgetting your suit case." ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ I have no fancy for humble pie—my digestion ain't good."
"There is a certain force to your contention, certainly," conceded Baca, bending an attentive regard on his opponent. "You put it in a new light. ”

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