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"Your stake's pretty big, already," commented Thorpe, tentatively. "It's just a fancy of mine," said the other, with his first smile. "I like to hold shares that are making sensational advances. It is very exciting." "All right," said Thorpe, in accents of resignation.
Offhand, Tom, I'd say that by getting hold of the boy Fentress expects to get hold of the Quintard land." "That's likely," said Ware, then struck by a sudden idea, he added, "Are you going to take all the risks and let him pocket the cash? If it's the land he's after, the stake's big enough to divide." "He can have the whole thing and welcome, I'm playing for a bigger stake."
But here he broke off; and as he once more watched the loading of the camels, he only thought to himself: "In playing for such high stake's, a few gold pieces more or less do not count. A few more heads must fall yet the handsome Egyptian first and foremost. If the conspirators at Medina only play their part! The fall of Omar means that of Amru, and that will set everything right."
Then said the King with a laugh: 'With small gain is Vögg fain. Further, this proof is told of Rolf Stake's daring. There ruled over Upsala a king named Adils, who had to wife Yrsa, Rolf Stake's mother. He was at war with Ali, the king who then ruled Norway. They appointed to meet in battle upon the ice of the lake called Venir.
"I I don't get you," Alec went on at last, in a sort of desperate helplessness. Kars dropped on to the bed again and laughed in his pleasant fashion. "Sure you don't. But do you feel like it? Are you ready to take a chance with me?" "By Gee yes! If there's a stake at the end of it." "The stake's there, sure. But but it means quitting Leaping Horse right away.
When he turned, Jonah was placidly smoking in the distance, while Daphne met her victim's accusing eye with a disdainful stare, her hands empty in her lap. The table, at which I was writing, shook with Jill's suppressed merriment. "The stake's upstairs," said Berry bitterly. "Or would you rather gouge out my eyes? Will you flay me alive? Because if so, I'll go and get the knives and things.
An' it's allers sim'lar; I never yet holds better than ace-high when the stake's a lady. "It's troo," he continued, reflectively puffing his pipe. "I was disp'sitioned for a wife that a-way when I'm a colt. But that's a long time ago; I ain't in line for no sech gymnastics no more; my years is 'way ag'in it. "You've got to ketch folks young to marry 'em.
But here he broke off; and as he once more watched the loading of the camels, he only thought to himself: "In playing for such high stake's, a few gold pieces more or less do not count. A few more heads must fall yet the handsome Egyptian first and foremost. If the conspirators at Medina only play their part! The fall of Omar means that of Amru, and that will set everything right."
His stake's on the thirteen, ain't it?" "What business you got, hornin' in on this? It hain't your funeral. You Texas tin-horns comes over here an' lose " "That'll be about all out of you. An' if I was in your boots I wouldn't go speakin' none frivolous about funerals, neither." The smile was gone from the steel-grey eyes and the croupier experienced a sudden chilling in the pit of his stomach.
"Hullo, captain," he said, "you'll be too late with the lights, won't you?" He had a deprecatory air. "Your watch is fast, Mr. Mayor," Rangsley answered surlily; "the tide won't serve for half an hour yet." "Cht, cht," the other wheezed. "No offence. We respect you. But still, when one has a stake, one likes to know." "My stake's all I have, and my neck," Rangsley said impatiently; "what's yours?
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