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He doesn't always do as people expect him to. Same time, he usually has a reason." "But for him to refuse to take either cash or a position!" "I notice, though, he drew his pay-check for the Q. T. survey. No; Tommy isn't altogether a fool not altogether." "Twenty-five-thousand-dollar position!" rasped Mr. Leslie. "Hey?" "Offered him that, and "
"Take the bet, dad," said Joey quietly, "and I'll take half of it off your hands. I'll give you my note, secured by an assignment of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar interest in mother's estate to secure you in case Mr. Ricks should win and call you for his winnings but he hasn't a chance in the world." "Money talks," Cappy Ricks warned him and got out his check book.
"You're squatting down like an old rooster in a dust-heap," raged the colonel, too angry to be choice in his language. "You, a twenty-five-thousand-dollar lawyer, come in here to me and say that you can't block the confiscatory scheme of a bounder a nobody a black-leg stranger in this state!" "I'll carry on the fight if you order me to do so," said the corporation lawyer. "That's my business.
I never heard Powers speak of Mr. , but can partly imagine what he would have said. Mr. spoke of Powers's disappointment about the twenty-five-thousand-dollar appropriation from Congress, and said that he was altogether to blame, inasmuch as he attempted to sell to the nation for that sum a statue which, to Mr. 's certain knowledge, he had already offered to private persons for a fifth part of it.
Gamble, on his arrival the following afternoon, found Miss Purry very coldly regretful that she had already disposed of her property for a working-girls' home, at a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, having made a twenty-five-thousand-dollar reduction by way of a donation to the cause. Johnny drove back into the city rapidly for he was now only sixteen hours ahead of his schedule.
I'm offering you, to begin with, a twenty-five-thousand-dollar position, and your chance to acquire a fortune, if you " Blake's smouldering anger flared out in white heat. "Think you can bribe me, do you? Well, you can just take your positions and your dollars, and go clean, plumb to hell!" "That will do, sir! that will do!" gasped Mr. Leslie, shocked almost beyond speech. "No, it won't do, Mr.
"I'll not in words. How about a twenty-five-thousand-dollar position?" "What?" demanded Blake, astonished. "That, as a beginning. If you prove yourself the kind of man I think you are, the kind that can learn to run a railroad system, I'll push you up the line to a hundred thousand, besides chances to come in on stock deals with George Ashton and myself." "But if you think I'm a "
"If anything happens to it, I shall lose the prize, at least as far as this meet is concerned, for I don't believe I shall get my fourth and newest model from the makers in time. Anyhow, if I did I couldn't pay for it I am ruined, if I don't win that twenty-five-thousand-dollar Brooks Prize.
There was something about this slim, leisurely man, with the handsome eyes and the quiet voice, that convinced and impressed you. "It's your complete lack of eagerness in the transaction, too," Emma remarked after watching him land a twenty-five-thousand-dollar bond pledge, the buyer a business rival of the Featherloom Petticoat Company. "You make it seem a privilege, not a favour.
I never heard Powers speak of Mr. , but can partly imagine what he would have said. Mr. spoke of Powers's disappointment about the twenty-five-thousand-dollar appropriation from Congress, and said that he was altogether to blame, inasmuch as he attempted to sell to the nation for that sum a statue which, to Mr. 's certain knowledge, he had already offered to private persons for a fifth part of it.
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