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Besides the gipsies' fair, the little shopkeepers in the villages send out circulars to the most outlying cottage announcing the annual sale at an immense sacrifice; anything to get the hop-pickers' cash; and the packmen come round, too, with jewelry and lace and finery.
The autumn race had played havoc with so many savings funds and so much actual cash in business that a great number of those badly hit had vowed that they would never again go in; and they clung to their new resolve through May and most of June.
If it had cost him so much time and labor to find it out, it was not probable that any one else would detect it. Indeed, no one but himself and Mr. Millard had any thing to do with the general cash account of the establishment, and he knew very well that the latter did not examine it with a very close scrutiny.
I do believe Hickman was not merely an easy fellow, but a fool; as to glove-money Healing-money duty-fowls and duty-work I tell you again, provided you increase my remittances, and work the cash out of these fellows, you may insist upon as many of them as you can get. "Yours, "P.S. What, my little saint, did you mean by that charitable blunder, concerning the widow, in your last letter?
"And you didn't understand that your father and brother-in-law could not convert their securities into the ready cash they needed to meet their obligations did you?" "I do not understand details, Louis.... No." "Or that they were desperate?" Her face altered pitifully. "On the edge of bankruptcy?" he went on. "What!"
The sightless old man raised both hands in deprecation. "The market won't absorb it," he protested. "Then we'll stack it in piles to air-dry and wait until the market is brisk enough to absorb it," Bryce replied. "Our finances won't stand the overhead of that night-shift, I tell you," his father warned. "I know we haven't sufficient cash on hand to attempt it, Dad, but I'm going to borrow some."
Hearing all this I said I would remain but it was with a heavy heart. Already I felt a shadow of defeat over me. The loss of time was a thorn. I was already short of cash, and my next money was Milan.
In spite of what the young man knew of Britt's lust for money, he believed that the usurer had worked a scheme to ruin a rival instead of merely operating to add to his riches. But Vaniman knew Britt well enough to reach the conclusion that, once having the hard cash in his possession, and the blame fastened on another man, Britt was allowing avarice to stand pat on the play.
"It took some money, I should imagine," pursued Mrs. Wynn. "Of course these folks must be rich." "Yes, they paid twelve thousand, cash down, for their present home, and the old lady told me they had other property besides." "Do tell!" and "Gracious sakes!" ejaculated both her listeners at once. "I must call right away." "It ain't neighborly to neglect strangers."
But if, peradventure, he returned to Spain with money to spare in his pocket, how easy indeed it would all be, and how happy he would find himself amid old surroundings and old friends! The way had suddenly opened up to him when Jean Jacques had brought home in hard cash, and had locked away in the iron-doored cupboard in the officewall, his last, his cherished, eight thousand dollars.
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