Suddenly and of her own volition, and with a cry that shot up through the room, rending it like a gash, Mrs. Horowitz, who moved by inches, sprang to her supreme height, her arms, the crooks forced out, flung up.

Nobody ever said we were crooks in our patrol.

In a word they were a precious pair of crooks, who for their own petty selfish ends played fast and loose with liberty, life and death.

We'd had a pretty bad time with crooks around these parts, and them that was nabbed in Sour Creek got away; about two out of three, before they was brought to me at Woodville.

So far as the justice of the case is concerned I am confident of final success, but there are so many crooks in the law that I ought to be prepared for disappointment.

I get thim on the crooks beyant Dolores

It has its graceful curves and crooks, indeed, and here and there a passionate tangent; but on the whole, if I were to unfold it here à la Hogarth, what better legend could I scrawl beneath the series of pictures than So-and-So's Progress to a Mercenary Marriage?

The crew were using very long poles, with crooks, or rather the stubs of cut branches which served as crooks, at the upper end.

The crew were using very long poles, with crooks, or rather the stubs of cut branches which served as crooks, at the upper end.

<pb id='295.png' n='1965h2/A/2341' /> CROOKS, LAURENCE E. Millions on wheels.

By Dewey H. Palmer & Laurence E. Crooks. © 10Nov38; A122756.

Dewey H. Palmer & Laurence E. Crooks (A); 19Nov65; R373277.

By Dewey H. Palmer & Laurence E. Crooks.

Dewey H. Palmer & Laurence E. Crooks (A); 19Nov65; R373278. PALMER, FLORENCE GLASS. Life and Miss Celeste.

"He had always believed in spiritualism, and those crooks caught him just right.

"Good-evening, Monsieur Crooks," said Jenieve.

"Good-evening, mademoiselle," responded Monsieur Crooks, and he leaned against the hut side, cap in hand, where he could look at her.

" "Monsieur Crooks, you speak all languages, don't you?" "Not all.

" "It would be better if you did not come down here at all, Monsieur Crooks," said Jenieve.

" Young Crooks laughed.

Young Crooks had scarcely said that place was nothing, and he would rather live in that little house with Jenieve than in the Fur Company's quarters without her, when she exclaimed openly, "And have old Michel Pensonneau put over you!"

If the McClures would go to the Illinois Territory with himBut, Monsieur Crooks," Jenieve asked sharply, "do people sometimes make sudden marriages?

" "It never did grow here, Monsieur Crooks.

Except his capacity for marrying, there was really no harm in the old fellow, as Monsieur Crooks had said.

The men uttered no sound but ranged themselves like specters in front of the door, their cocked rifles swung into the crooks of their arms.