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"But if he strikes north, as you say, and goes first to Liverpool, and gets home by the back door, as it were, by taking a steamer to Quebec or Montreal " "That's a mere blind!" "But why say that?" "Because he's too wise to stride British territory, before he unloads. It's not a mere matter of stopping the transfer of this stock, or whether or not all of it is negotiable.
Some progress has been made in getting a uniform standard of weights and measures, and there is an increasing tendency to prescribe specific weights and markings for packages possibly unconstitutional legislation. Still more important as a change in previously existing law has been the increasing tendency to make documents other than bills and notes negotiable.
Their supply of money was coming to an end; attempts must be made to regularize that position by drawing on Mrs. Warren's German investments and the capital she still had in Belgian stock if that were negotiable at all. Where should they go? Mrs. With the influence of the Government Secretary behind her she might turn out some of its occupants and regain the use of the old "appartement."
"Not negotiable, unluckily," she replied, taking his compliment as he had paid it, without a trace of self-consciousness. "Like the sunlight," he answered. "In fact," confidentially "I'm afraid you're a thief; you've imprisoned a piece of the sun, which should belong to us all. However, I'm not going to complain to the authorities, I like the result too much.
At noon on Friday, the 21st, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in negotiable securities will be placed in my hands, and I am to give in return an order on the safe-deposit company for the phonographic plates. But there is one paragraph in the letter that puzzles me.
Our young woman so yielded, at moments, to what was insidious in these foredoomed ingenuities of her pity, that for minutes together, sometimes, the weight of a new duty seemed to rest upon her the duty of speaking before separation should constitute its chasm, of pleading for some benefit that might be carried away into exile like the last saved object of price of the emigre, the jewel wrapped in a piece of old silk and negotiable some day in the market of misery.
The dupe hands the note over, for the money he advanced was not his, and, on being informed that it would be necessary to have his signature on the back so as to render the security negotiable, he signs without any hesitation. The swindler passes it on to confederates, and the latter employ a respectable firm of solicitors to ask the dupe if his signature is genuine.
Wright almost a moment to recover his usual calm dignity and make answer: "Five thousand in cash, and there are negotiable notes amounting to upward of forty thousand more." "Are you sure of that?" queried Kendale, his excitement growing keener; "how do you know?" "You placed bills in my hands a few moments since which necessitated conferring with Mr. Conway, the cashier, about meeting them."
And so it grew in stature, but not in girth, until its head was sixty, seventy or even eighty feet above the ground, and a hundred nuts of various sizes hung in bunches from long, shiny, green arms, each as thick as a man's, which had thrust themselves out from between the lower fronds. There is no production of Nature that I know of less negotiable than a coconut as the tree presents it.
It comforted him, on reflection, to think that matters might have been worse. There was balm for his wounded spirit in paying the debt of gratitude by a sentence not negotiable at his banker's. Whatever his father might have done, he had got Lecount a bargain, after all! "A little more writing, sir," resumed Mrs. Lecount, "and your painful but necessary duty will be performed.
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