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Shrugging his shoulders contemptuously, he exclaimed: "Who were you till I married you nobody! What were you? A telephone girl getting ten dollars a week. And now who are you? You're Mrs. Robert Stafford! And what are you? You're the wife of one of the richest men in the country. And how did he get you for his wife? He bought you and he paid for you."

Independent Inspectors General have been appointed in major agencies to attack fraud and waste. More than a billion dollars of questionable transactions have been identified through their audit activities.

He was anxious to get through that he might go home. He was glad that it was Saturday, for he would have the next day free. It was dark by the time his tasks were done, and then he went to the house for his week's pay. He had agreed to work for a dollar and a half a day, and get his own breakfast and supper at home. Thus he had nine dollars coming to him for his week's work.

Not that the places of our two scholars can ever be filled, but the boarding-house business is booming these days. We are turning them away. Do you remember the night that you walked in here an hour late for supper, and I arose and collected twenty dollars from you?" "Oh, yes.... By the way I have never asked whatever became of that extraordinary pleasure-dog of yours?" "Thank you.

"If you see anything lying around loose, Miss Abbie, where you can pick up a few dollars and you must now and then so many people going in and out from Boston and other places and want a couple of hundred to help out, let me know. I'll stake you, and glad to." In answer, Abbie passed his mail through the square window. "Thank you, Mr. Taylor," was all she said. "I won't forget."

'Oh! answered his neighbour, 'I hear what you say, but I don't believe it for all that. 'Shall we lay a bet upon it? asked Gudbrand on the Hill-side. 'I have a hundred dollars at the bottom of my chest at home; will you lay as many against them?

For the most part, the troops engaged in them suffered no more heavily than in ordinary police duty, and the costs were the costs of maintaining the regular army. The total money outlay for purchases and indemnities was about 45 millions of dollars.

"Have you ever been paid a little bill of twenty-five dollars by our company?" he asked. Down in his heart Carlton knew that this man was a detective. "I can't say without looking it up," he replied. Carlton touched a button and an assistant appeared.

When contracts, to the amount of many millions of dollars, were being constantly given out for a period of four years, there was never a thought that a dishonest dollar would find its way, either directly or indirectly, into the hands of the President, or with his consent into the hands of his friends.

On the spot one learned that this suppression was not only genuine and thorough, but that it meant a renunciation of an annual revenue of nearly ten million dollars on the part of a government whose chief difficulty is financial, and where apart from motives of personal squeeze it would have been easy to argue that at least temporarily the end justified the means in retaining this source of revenue.