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He had been conning the freights for a long, long time now.
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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.
He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.
But the luck that had been running their way left him.
His shout had been taken up and repeated.
A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.
The worst part had been the waiting ; ;
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
And one had been too many.
That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.
had and conning
Twelve men survived the sinking of the submarine: the crews of her two deck guns and those who had been on the conning tower.
Although he " had every reason to believe " that Germans were still below decks setting demolition charges and scuttling the ship, David led Pillsburys men on board and down the conning tower hatch, and took possession of the ship.
The first Royal Navy conning tower appeared on HMS Warrior which had 3 inches of armour.
In the Royal Navy ( RN ), the conning tower became a massive structure reaching weights of hundreds of tons on the Admiral class battlecruiser ( such as Hood ), and formed part of a massive armoured citadel ( superstructure ) on the mid-1920s Nelson-class battleships which had armour over a foot thick.
The King George V class, in contrast to the Nelson class had comparatively light conning tower protection with 4. 5 inches sides, 3 inch front and rear, and 2 inch roof and deck.
Older RN battleships that were reconstructed with new superstructures, had their heavily armoured conning towers removed and replaced with much lighter structures.
The United States Navy had mixed opinions of the conning tower, pointing out that its weight, high above the ship's center of gravity, did not contribute directly to fighting ability.
The crisis came about after discovering that his friend and business partner of nine years had been conning him out of large sums of money.
These submarines were fast, had a very long range, and carried a single Yokosuka E14Y seaplane, located in a hangar in front of the conning tower, which was launched by a catapult.
had and freights
Seaboard also had a number of fast, high-priority freight trains called Red Ball freights between various points on its system.
had and for
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.
Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
He had done time for the theft.
That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.
He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.
Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
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