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I can't seem to understand that he's gone, but everything's gone, for that matter. Everything!" "Oh no, dad. Why, you're here and I'm here! We've been broke before." Kirby smiled again, but cheerlessly. "Oh, we ain't exactly broke; I've got the bank-roll on me and it 'll pull us through. We've had bad luck for a year or two, but it's bound to change. You cheer up and come over to the stove.
"Bein' released from them devotions, I starts to drinkin' ag'in with zeal an' earnestness. An' thar comes a time when all my money's in my boots. Yere's how: I only takes two stacks of reds when I embarks on this yere debauch. Bein' deep an' crafty, an' a new Injun at that agency that a-way, an' not knowin' what game I may go ag'inst, I puts the rest of my bank-roll over in Howard's store.
His curiosity got the better of him finally, and he fell into talk with Lee, inquiring about the stranger by way of an opening. "That's Ben Stark. I knew him back in the Cassiar country," said Lee. "Is he a mining man?" "Well, summat. He's made and lost a bank-roll that a greyhound couldn't leap over in the mining business, but it ain't his reg'lar graft.
No money's comin' in. Th' circus has moved on to th' nex' town, an' left him without a customer. Th' Jew man that loaned him th' bank-roll threatens to seize th' ca-ards on' th' table. Whin, lo an' behold, down th' sthreet comes a ma-an fr'm th' counthry, a lawyer fr'm Ohio, with a gripsack in his hand. Oh, but he's a proud man.
They ain't got no bank-roll an' no credit like you has, Colonel that's what makes them see their errors an' the plain trooth is they ain't had nothin' to drink for twenty-four hours. That's why I don't take nothin'. It would shore seem invidious for me to be settin' yere h'istin' in my nose-paint, an' my pore comrades lookin' he'plessly on; that's whatever!
"You have been kept informed of his search for the will and of its final discovery?" "From the first; and though the boy has a good bit of money in his own name, I will back him in getting his rights to the very last pound in my possession, and that," he added, while his dark eyes flashed ominously, "will outlast the bank-roll of any that can go against him."
He simply can't lose, can't fail to cop out the best-looking girl with the biggest bank-roll in town. I tell you, there's nothing to it!" "It's wonderful to listen to you, Harry." "I'm talking horse sense, my son. Can't you see it now?" "Yes," Duncan admitted, half-persuaded of the plausibility of the scheme. "I see and I admire immensely the intellect that conceived the notion, Harry.
He was trying to estimate the size of the gash which this preposterous entertainment would cleave in the Pilkington bank-roll. He doubted if it was possible to go through with it under five hundred dollars; and, if, as seemed only too probable, Mrs Peagrim took the matter in hand and gave herself her head, it might get into four figures.
"I'll bet he milked Los Angeles dry of paper money," Andy Green asserted facetiously, thumbing his small fortune gloatingly. "Holding out anything for yourself, Luck? We don't want to be hogs." "I'm taking care of my interests don't you worry about that a minute," Luck stated complacently. "I held mine out first. That wipes the slate and cleans up the bank-roll.
He's an Edinburgh man, and the fly American promoters got him to put up the price of the timber and then mortgaged their interests to him as security for the advance. He foreclosed on their notes five years ago." "And there he is with his useless timber!" John Cardigan murmured thoughtfully. "The poor Scotch sucker!" "He isn't poor. The purchase of that timber didn't even dent his bank-roll.
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