He called up the details of the holdup and carefully revolved them in mind.
Mrs. Thornton was, however, so far the dupe of her own folly, that she conceived Miss Holdup the finest child she had ever known, and a decisive proof of her own talents for education.
If I land there you can ask for a damfool--and I'll answer the first time," laughed the holdup over his shoulder.
I offered him the value he put on the ranch himself, not a holdup price.
That's Jake Betts, holdup and bad man, that's been callin' himself Dade around here.
And there I had a job explaining that I wasn't a holdup myself.
It didn't strike those boneheads that no sane holdup would come walking along the track a few hours after a robbery.
When he returned to the car Penny questioned him regarding the holdup men.
While one of the holdup men covered the crowd with his revolver, the other moved swiftly from person to person collecting jewelry, watches and money.
He took out a slip of the papers they had bought the morning they left Chicago and read the account of the holdup and robbery.
They'd failed in the holdup of the Rockville stage last spring and it was about time to hear from them--the road after you passed Plymouth was pretty lonesome.
Then his mind leaped the gap from the holdup in August to that picturesque narrative still fresh in the public mind--Knapp's story of the robbed cache.
There was a holdup round there two or three weeks ago.
At Sheeps Bar, ten miles farther on, he was to meet Knapp and plan for the holdup of the stage that tomorrow night would carry treasure to the Cimarroon Mine at North Fork.
Such a stream, dried now to a few stagnant pools, had worn a way along the gulley where the holdup had occurred.
Two nights before old man Schneider, goaded to desperation by the repeated raids upon his cash drawer, had shown fight when he again had been invited to elevate his hands, and the holdup men had shot him through the heart.
In a country of a hundred million people a holdup conducted by a hundred million people for the hundred million people is democracy.
A holdup by all the people of all the people for all the people is Liberty.
A lockout of employers in a particular business is a holdup of all other employers and workmen, and is undemocratic and unfair.
A strike by workmen in a particular business is a holdup of all the other workmen in the country, raises the cost of living for everybody, and is undemocratic and unfair.
Are capital and labor going to use the holdup on each other to get what they want when six million dead men, still almost warm in their graves, have died to prove that the holdup, or German way of getting things, does not work?
It reached the scene of the holdup before daybreak.
And lastly, we've got to find just how this story you've told me got mixed with the story of the holdup of the Limited.
We'd been expecting a holdup and when it came we thought it was the faked one.
As I observed before," he said, "there hasn't been any tourist holdup yet.
Bill, our guide, says there may be a holdup at any time.
The point is this: You know all about the holdup that is going to take place.
The young man knew the plans for the holdup even letter than Bill.
Just beyond, at the pass, is where the holdup is to take place to-morrow.
During the week only one holdup was reported to the police and prohibition officers were surprised to find that bootleggers had stopped their work.
There was not a robbery, holdup or ordinary theft reported to the police.
When there has been a holdup out there on a stage or a train and the bandits leap on to their horses and flee across the border, Harry is to pursue them in his little silver plane and see where they go.
Orleman, another bank messenger, in an attempted holdup of the two in the Fourteenth Street subway station Friday afternoon, had an accomplice.
Right over there are the tire marks of the holdup car.
Told him there'd been a holdup here, so he blew his whistle, which brought another policeman and we three raced back here.
She talked, and Bud learned a good deal about Crater and its surroundings, and when he spoke of holdup gangs she seemed to know immediately what he meant, and told him a great deal more about the Catrockers than Marian had done.
He was mighty glad that holdup man had fallen down, last Sunday, before he got his hands on any money, because that money was going to talk long and loud to Jeff Hall next Sunday.
This is the second holdup here at the Notch this summer.
Just what started you to workin' this holdup game?
There hasn't been a holdup around here since the stagecoach stopped running!
The holdup man laughed harshly as he seized the horse's bridle bringing him up so sharply that Connie was nearly unseated.
She did not believe that he could have had anything to do with theholdup at Eagle Pass.
Later in the morning George Slocer rode in to report that the sheriff's posse had been unable to find a trace of the holdup man.
The only thing that averted the holdup was the quick action of the engineer in deciding to run through the fire and his speed in reversing his train and backing up a mile to make a run for it.
They were exactly like the marks which he had found near the scene of the attempted holdup of the midnight mail only a few days before.
Well, I'll bet Mr. Holdup didn't get a mint off you lads.
Me, I've had buck-ague for most three hours expecting that doggoned holdup to blow the roof of my head off.
The other case that came off in that fateful quarter of an hour was a theatre holdup on State Street, just over the river; one of those quiet little affairs.
Does our friend Hole-in-His-Hand belong to the holdup gang, or the fur store robbers?
A holdup man, caught in the act, had pretended to surrender.
Without having had a hand in the holdup of the stage, he had arrived on the spot just in time to draw the fire of the authorities.
In addition, the Dixie Queen is the farthest out from town, and there are many excellent spots for a holdup between town and the mine.
Now, when I find that the package you gave to me was full of blank paper, you can say that I framed the holdup story and changed the money for paper in the bargain.
He remembered the two objects he had picked up in the road after the holdup and felt in his pocket to make sure they were there.
For a time he performed the duties of his position very satisfactorily, but he finally drifted into the holdup business, while still a deputy sheriff, with Perkins and Watts as his partners.
Tiring of the monotony of this kind of a life, Reynolds formed a partnership with another desperado by the name of Albert Brown, and again started out in the holdup business.
