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It's worth twenty-five hundred dollars, at least, and since old Poundstone's finances will not permit such an extravagance, I'm wondering how Pennington expects him to pay for it. I smell a rat as big as a kangaroo. In this case two and two don't make four. They make six! Guess I'll build a fire under old Poundstone." He took down the telephone-receiver and called up the Mayor.
I paid eight dollars down." "You did? Where did you get the eight dollars?" Bobby remembered the money Tom's father had lost several weeks before, and immediately connected that circumstance with his present ability to pay so large a sum. Tom hesitated again, but he was never at a loss for an answer. "My mother gave it to me." "Your mother?"
Smith was visibly excited, though he tried to appear calm. "Yes; and I also hear that they have decided to pay the extravagant price you asked for a lot of ground at the north end of the city." "A thousand dollars an acre?" "Yes." "Its real value, and not a cent more," said Smith. "People differ about that. However, you are lucky," the friend replied. "The city is able to pay." "So I think.
They took their glasses, drank his health, and then recommenced their mirth. "`And so you lost the wager? asked Number 2. "`Yes, by Heaven, I paid the hundred dollars, and, what was worse, was laughed at by every body. "Slick was sadly puzzled, the young men had been laughing, they were now talking of a bet, and he knew nothing of it.
O , the overseer, the latter mentioned that two of our carpenters had in their leisure time made a boat, which they had disposed of to some neighbouring planter for sixty dollars.
With a trembling hand he untied the knot which secured the money. "Here, mother, here is thirty-five dollars;" and he placed it in her hand. "Why, Bobby!" exclaimed Mrs. Bright. "Pay him, mother, pay him, and I will tell you all about it by and by." "Thirty-five dollars! and all in gold! Where did you get it, Bobby?" "Never mind it now, mother." Mr.
The superintendent was inclined to be angry with Drusilla as angry as she could be with a woman who possessed a million dollars. She said stiffly: "I'm afraid the ladies will be ill to-morrow." One of them, hearing it, spoke up. "Of course we'll all be sick; but, then, it was worth it!" And Drusilla left with those words ringing in her ears.
Besides, the ten thousand dollars which I say I will lose are not the same kind of dollars that I used to have. They are, in a way, speculative dollars. They are not the good dollars that bought 100 cents' worth. So, though my loss may sound big, it is not big.
But if Chatwourth understood the hidden taunt he did not respond to the challenge and Denver's mind reverted to H. Parkinson Dodge and his flattering offers for the mine. Ten thousand dollars cash, from a mining promoter, was indeed a princely sum; better by far than the offer of half a million shares that went with Bunker's option.
Mathusek wrung her hands. Couldn't the gentleman go bail for Tony? He was such a dear, kind, good gentleman! She searched his face hungrily. Mr. Simpkins falteringly admitted that he did not possess five hundred dollars. "But " he hesitated. "Yes!" "But " she echoed, seizing his sleeve and dragging him back. Mr.
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