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It it'd rid, instead of me drawin' down after the third pass, I'd a won over thirty thousan' on the original two-bit piece." "Just the same, Shorty, this is a real system." "Huh! You got to show me." "I did show you. Come on with me now and I'll show you again."
Glaring at his companion he banged his huge, hairy fist on the table until the glasses jumped. "Ye're a domned owld savage wid yer talk. Fwhat the hell is yer counthry good for as ut is? A thousan' square miles av ut wouldn't feed a jack-rabbit.
Wha'd you ?" Allie's voice failed her completely, she groped at her throat, uttering unintelligible, animal-like sounds. "Why, Allie, you're mad! And after all he done for me an' you," Mrs. Briskow cried, accusingly. "You oughter be ashamed." "Sure! Didn't he make us twenty-four thousan' dollars, where we wouldn't of got nothin'? An' us rich as we are, an' him broke? I'm supprised at you."
"Oh, sacre bleu, been dead three thousan' year!" The doctor turned on him savagely: "Here, now, what do you mean by such conduct as this! Playing us for Chinamen because we are strangers and trying to learn! Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us! thunder and lightning, I've a notion to to if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! or by George we'll brain you!"
I been figurin' that I still got about twenty thousan' o' that bunch o' green I pulled out o' that express car, planted in places where 'taint doin' nobody no good. I guess ef I do ut careful I kin send ut back to the company, a little at a time, an' they'd never know where ut come from." Mary wept; Humpy stared, his mouth open, his one eye rolling queerly.
Th' same afthernoon th' reg'lar cavalry, con-sistin' iv four hundherd an' eight thousan' well-mounted men, was loaded aboord th' tug Lucy J., and departed on their earned iv death amidst th' cheers iv eight millyon sojers left behind at Chickamaha.
It was in greenbacks, a little roll no bigger'n your thumb, an' when I counted 'em I near dropped dead. Ten little slips of paper, Steve, an' each good for one thousan' bucks! Ten thousan' dollars did Phil Packard slip me that night not a half-hour before he went over. For you. An' I got 'em for you, Steve; I got 'em safe for you."
"No; but I'm goin' to now. It's part of the yarn I got to spin to-night. Like I said I took the wad your father had slipped it back in a flat sort of pocketbook an' went outside. It was night already an' dark. Ten thousan' bucks for me to keep safe for you!" Again he ran his hand across his forehead.
"Just the same, they retail for a couple of dollars each," he said. "Is that all?" "Ain't it enough?" the other demanded in an aggrieved tone. "Sure it is," Jim answered with unqualified approval. "Better'n I expected. I wouldn't take a cent less than ten thousan' for the bunch." "Ten thousan'," Matt sneered. "They're worth twic't that, an' I don't know anything about joolery, either.
His explanation or an attack on my friend and on my carriage should be made to my brother." "Alas that he was not here," said the Duke, "to aid me! Madam, was your carriage threatened? I have endeavored only to expunge a debt I owed to Bath and to avenge an insult offered to yourself through " "Sir, sir, my patience will bear little more!" "A thousan' apology," said M. Beaucaire.
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