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In vain Gage and Snell tried to get hold of some IOU's with Frank Merriwell's name on them. Frank's money was exhausted, and he stopped playing suddenly. Gage offered to loan him money, but he had not forgotten the past, and not a cent of Gage's cash would he touch. Then Snell tried it, but was no more successful. This made them both angry. "Confound the fellow!" said Gage, fiercely.
"I insist on your coming up the stairs, and I will show which is the injured party, poor George or I"; and, dragging the old gentleman up to his bedroom, he produced from his desk Osborne's accounts, and a bundle of IOU's which the latter had given, who, to do him justice, was always ready to give an IOU. "He paid his bills in England," Dobbin added, "but he had not a hundred pounds in the world when he fell.
"There's news!" continued the clear voice. "You need not be anxious about Kupferof's IOU's Rogojin has bought them up. I persuaded him to! I dare say we shall settle Biscup too, so it's all right, you see! Au revoir, tomorrow! And don't worry!" The carriage moved on, and disappeared. "The woman's mad!" cried Evgenie, at last, crimson with anger, and looking confusedly around.
"Jest ez I kalkilated. Now it so happens, ez you said, that I was pinched on sugar. So every mother's son and daughter that gits a squint at that paper to-night got to pony up five cups of sugar. Savve? Five cups, big cups, white, or brown, or cube, an' I'll take their IOU's, an' send a boy round to their shacks the day followin' to collect."
As to the question of the IOU's she had spoken of, there might easily be something in that; for though Evgenie was undoubtedly a man of wealth, yet certain of his affairs were equally undoubtedly in disorder. Arrived at this interesting point, Gania suddenly broke off, and said no more about Nastasia's prank of the previous evening.
He imagined that they were bluffing and took them at their word, with the result that there fell upon Clonderriff a snowstorm of documents leases and mortgages and conveyances and post-obits all the documentary débris of a crumbled estate, from the Elizabethan charter on which the first Hewish had founded Roscarna to the illiterate IOU's of Jocelyn's spider-racing days.
"You are perhaps holding some of his IOU's?" Andrew asked. "I certainly am," Forrest answered, "and the sooner I hear from him the better. If you are really the owner of this house, I shall leave to-morrow morning." Andrew bowed coldly. "That," he said, "would certainly seem to be your best course. On the contrary," he added, "I am not altogether sure that I am justified in letting you go."
her ZINA, parentage unknown X mark "Ah, ha," exclaimed the lawyer, "this changes the complexion of affairs," and he threw the cards upon the floor. "I could swear to Joseph's handwriting, I have his IOU's, but as I am now sitting as a magistrate, I cannot swear to anything. Where are the witnesses, Abdullah?"
Though I had given him a broad hint but the fellow understands nothing but his IOU's he fell to introducing of course: she is a most interesting-looking creature, I acknowledge, my boy, if she were not a Jewess. I thought she would have sunk into the earth when she heard my name.
"I don't know what she's talking about! What IOU's? Who is she?" Mrs. Epanchin continued to watch his face for a couple of seconds; then she marched briskly and haughtily away towards her own house, the rest following her. A minute afterwards, Evgenie Pavlovitch reappeared on the terrace, in great agitation. "Prince," he said, "tell me the truth; do you know what all this means?"
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