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‘There,’ he cried, ... ‘there, boys! That means Red Hills or bust’ Frontispiece
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‘It’s all I have a right to give anybody’ 74
‘Eighty cents,’ he muttered, ‘and for how much work?’ 80
‘Well,’ began the boss, looking him over, ‘what kind of a cook are you?’ 98
Wonderfully they held the pace 114
They went on in this way for nearly an hour 120
‘Look here, Tiffany,’ Carhart began, ‘something’s going to happen to this man Peet’ 142
‘You go back to your quarters’ 208
... this trestle structure which was slowly crawling, like some monster centipede, across the sands of the La Paz 240
The cigarette dropped from Antonio’s unnerved fingers 244
Charlie had not raised his revolver,—the muzzle still rested easily on the sill,—but it was pointing straight at Jack Flagg’s heart 310