William Wallace Cook

Name: The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5 — An Even Break
Author: William Wallace Cook

The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

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“The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5 — An Even Break”, published in 1910, is a work by William Wallace Cook. It explores elements such as Tutweiler, Hokeberry and sheriff.

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William Wallace Cook, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

“ He kicked the model of my improved penitentiary out of the jail office, and everybody knows how he smashed my patent gallows and used it for kindlin'.”
Napoleon scowled and bent over to roll the cannon-ball at the cat.
“Backus,” he added wrathfully, “can't appreciate genius no more'n a Feejee. If anybody else but me had flashed that improved 'pen' on him, or that gallows with the patent trap, he'd have tumbled all over himself to get 'em protected at Washington for an interest.”
“There's a rival inventor in the jail, I hear,” said Tutweiler tentatively, and with an air of subdued caution. ”

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William Wallace Cook, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

“ I had Yep send to Jimtown after three outfits, and I propose to have Napoleon bring the prisoner up here so he can give us a demonstration. If either of us can slip the cuffs, or wriggle out of the ankle-irons, or make a noise behind the gag, then the deal's off.”
“What's the improvements Yep has worked out?” asked Hokeberry.
“Well, they'll hold a man like grim death, and they're collapsible, and so light a sheriff can carry a dozen sets and not feel 'em in his clothes.”
“That's what Yep says,” commented Tutweiler. “What'll it cost to put the patents through?” ”

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William Wallace Cook, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

“ Backus coughed. “Yep, gentlemen,” said he, “is the most un-so-phis-ti-cat-ed man for a horse-thief you most ever saw. He says that all he wants is to interest a few shinin' lights of law and order, and he bats the whole proposition up to us. He hasn't even filed a caveat. After Yep shows us how the thing works, why, we can do as we please with 'em.”
“Well, bring the prisoner up, Backus,” suggested Hokeberry, 'and let's have a look at what he's got.”
The sheriff of Wells stepped to the door, unlocked it, and pulled it open.
“Napoleon,” he called, “go to Cell Three and bring Yep. ”

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William Wallace Cook, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

“ Yep, pursuing a dark and nefarious design of his own, had edged around to the vicinity of the cannon-ball. That solid shot relic of Sibley's campaign against the Sioux, and Backus cherished it for its associations and used it to prop the door open on warm, windy days. ”

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William Wallace Cook, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

“ You wont go up in the air, will you, when I tell you I've tampered with the clock and installed my shotgun protector in this jail while you was away on duty? If you're willin' to back me in puttin' these inventions on the market, nod. Will you nod, or—”
Napoleon, in the joy of the moment and the intensity of his desire to convince Backus that he was a genius to be reckoned with, did not pay as much attention to Yep as he should have done. Backus, Tutweiler, and Hokeberry noticed this lack of attention, and were alarmed over it, but it was impossible for them to warn the turnkey. ”

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William Wallace Cook, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

“ No one owns him for a relative.”
“Quite so, quite so,” approved Backus. “And here's another point, gentlemen. McLean, Wells, and Bottineau counties have been the scene of Yep's depredations for years. The trouble we've had with him ought to be worth something, hadn't it?”
“It had,” declared Hokeberry. “But I'm not going to take any stock in these inventions till I try 'em for myself.”
“That's how I feel,” spoke up Tutweiler, “even if we are getting something for almost nothing.” ”

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William Wallace Cook, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 14… (1910)

“ Tutweiler's entranced eyes were held by the clock. Incidentally, his mind was dealing with the problem for getting at the correct time.
“Why don't you fix it, Napoleon?” he inquired. “They say you've a knack for inventing things. Couldn't you make that clock tell the simple truth if you tried?”
“Not for nothing I aint called 'Napoleon,'” replied the turnkey, ruffling his red hair with one hand and half-closing his left eye. “When the old man makes up his mind to take me serious, there's a lot of things I'll do to make this a model institution. But he don't. ”

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