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"Why, find out where de loidy keeps de jools." "Confound you, Spike! How often am I to tell you that I have done with all that sort of thing forever? I never want to see or touch another stone that doesn't belong to me. I don't want to hear about them. They don't interest me." "Sorry, Mr. Chames. But dey must cop de limit for fair, dose jools. Two hundred t'ousand plunks! What's dat dis side?"
Dat's why I speculated on dat five to one perhaps. I had a t'ousand iron dollars saved up. If I winned I was goin' to buy Delaney's cafe. Who'd a t'ought dat stiff would take a nap in de foist round say?" "It's a hard deal," commented Raidler, looking down at the diminutive form of McGuire crumpled against the truck. "But you go to a hotel and rest. There's the Menger and the Maverick, and "
At least, it was postponing the inevitable for a month, and in a month what may not happen? Besides, at the end of the month, he would be richer by three thousand francs. "I accept, monsieur," he said, with fervour. "I am t'ankful a t'ousand time!" "All right; I take possession at once. We can have a notary draw up a formal agreement.
"I will reach it," said the hermit in a low voice, as he scanned the precipice carefully. "So will I," said the negro. "No, Moses, I go alone. You will remain in the boat and watch. If I fall, you can pick me up." "Pick you up!" echoed Moses. "If you tumbles a t'ousand feet into de water how much t'ink you will be lef' to pick up?" It was useless to attempt to dissuade Van der Kemp.
"I believe in my soul," whispered uncle Ro, "that my dear old mother has a secret presentiment who we are, by her manifesting so much respect. T'ousand t'anks, matam, t'ousand t'anks," he continued, dropping into his half-accurate half-blundering broken English, "for dis great honour, such as we might not expect das laty of das house to wait for us at her door."
But once in a while you find some guy dat talks French or German. Dey've got a little standin' army of two t'ree t'ousand men an' dey've got de hottest uniforms you ever did see red an' black an' gold. I don't see why d' United Rates can't get up somethin' foxy fer her soldiers to wear. Had a war over here not long ago, I understand somethin' like ten or fifteen years ago.
"Why, these creatures would eat us all up, if we were to encounter them as we did those the other day," I remarked. "No fear, massa," answered Timbo. "Dey no come in same way. Dey no go into house, no climb tree, and only just a few hundred or t'ousand march together."
"What d'ye calc'late the major will do about it?" said Brodrick, in the roundhouse conclave held daily by the trainmen who were hung up or off duty. "Will he listen to reason and give us a sure-enough railroad man or two at the top?" "Not in ein t'ousand year," quoth "Dutch" Tischer, Callahan's alternate on the fast mail. "Haf you not de Arkoos been reading?
But Heinzman's excitement had suddenly died. "No," said he, extending his trembling hand; "sit down. I want to talk business." "You are in no condition to talk business," said Orde. "No!" cried Heinzman with unexpected vigour. "Sit down! Listen to me! Dot's better. I haf your note for sefenty-five t'ousand dollars. No?" Orde nodded. "Dot money I never lent you. NO! I'm not crazy. Sit still!
He wasn't shovin' no checks fer what he sold into de bank except to get dem cashed. Dat's wot he's been doin' all day gettin' de checks cashed, an' gettin' de money in big bills see! I know of one bunch of eighty t'ousand an' dat's only one!" "Wot fer?" inquired Larry the Bat. It was the question that was pounding at his brain, as he stared innocently at the Magpie. What did it mean?
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