Loup-Garou! (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... BULLY BOTTOM. ""Y"OU marked that man what were at the bar when we came in?" "The big, noisy chap with the red face and bull neck? He must stand six feet two if an inch." "So he do, or maybe more; and you seen how he skipped out into the fresh air when his eye dropped on me?" He had certainly departed somewhat abruptly from the little, noisy drinking saloon in Port of Spain. "The chap rather bustled out," I admitted "Yes, an' he always bustles when he sees me. He'll bustle in Kingdom Come likewise if I'm down his alley, though I hopes I shan't be. You didn't see his left hand, did you?" "No, I noticed nothing particular." "Ah, but it's the darndest queer hand in Trinidad, for all that. He don't flourish it much now, but it was along of flourishing it too free that he came by his accident. I'll tell you the yarn if you're minded to listen. 'Bully Bottom' that cuss is called--I judge he've got the biggest body and the dirtiest heart in the West Indies. But it was me as found him out and figured him up, and sub tracted what was bad, and showed there weren't nothing left. He says he's 'Merican, which is a lie. He comes from one of them God-forgotten Republics on the mainland, I judge. Left it sudden when they took to shootin', reckoning himself too big to be about where lead was fly in' round. However, here he came and soon found pals by virtue of his size and his side. He talked so darned large, and bounced it so fierce, that our boys guessed he must be a big bug down on his luck and just come over to Port of Spain to lie low till his pards were in again over the water. But not he. He was a meaner, viler cuss than the beastliest 'bum' in New York--a common, card-sharpin', blackleg thief. He is now, and maybe his carroty head'll be white...