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Updated: June 26, 2025
The Snowbird so far forgot his responsibilities as to abandon the roulette-wheel and leave its bank-roll unguarded while he scurried to the bar and demanded a drink, a tray of assorted drinks, fit for a fainting lady.
Thar's a senile party who's packed his blankets into camp an' who's called 'Major Ben. The Major, so the whisper goes, used to be quartermaster over to Fort Craig or Fort Apache, or mebby now it's Fort Cummings or some'ers; an' he gets himse'f dismissed for makin' away with the bank-roll.
"'I can start right this minute, says Sweet Caps; 'my tooth-brush is packed and all I've got to do is to put on my hat. S'pose we run up to a Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street, which is a nice secluded spot, he says, 'and catch the rattler. "'How are you fixed for currency? I says. "'Fixed? he says. 'I ain't fixed a-tall. A'int you been carrying the firm's bank-roll? Say, ain't you?
Unmoved, she had watched him through that lean period lunching on coffee and buckwheat cakes, and curbing from motives of economy a somewhat florid taste in dress. But this was different. This was tragedy. Somehow or other, blasting disaster must have smitten the Fillmore bank-roll, and he was back where he had started. His presence here this morning could mean nothing else.
Move a little to the southeast and shade your eyes. We get music here of an evening when we don't see it coming and sidestep." "Why in the name of goodness do you live here, Mr. Bayliss?" "Because, Miss Chester, I am infernally hard up! Because the Bayliss bank-roll has been stricken with a wasting sickness." Ann was looking at him incredulously.
Up until that minute I hadn't had the heart to tell the Sweet Caps Kid that our little joint partnership bank-roll is no longer with us. I'd been saving back them tidings for a more suitable moment, but now I has to tell him. "It seems that the night before, I had been tiger hunting in the jungle down at Honest John Donohue's.
An', of course, it's plain the divers an' several disasters, from the loss of that kyard gent's bank-roll down to the Mexican nuptials of the ill-advised lady to whom I alloodes, can't be laid to its charge. The whole racket shocks an' shakes me to that degree, concloods Enright, 'that to-day I ain't got no settled views on opals', none whatever.
I opened a little stud game for him. Beats all how these suckers fall for the old stuff." "Where did you get money to gamble with?" inquired Boyd. "Oh! I won a pinch of change last night in a bridge game with that Dawson Bunch." "But it must have required a bank-roll to sit in a game with them. They seem to be heavy spenders. How did you manage that?" "I sold some mining property the day before.
An ardent supporter of the local motion-picture palace, she had hoped for a slightly more gingery denouement, something with a bit more punch. "Yes, but don't it show you?" continued Mr. Abrahams, gallantly trying to work up the interest. "There's this girl, goes out of my place not more'n a year ago, with a good bank-roll in her pocket, and here she is, back again, all of it spent.
Outwardly calm and self-possessed, she silently read the message, which was dated Buffalo, the night before, and ran as follows: "MY OWN DARLING: "I have been through the shadow of the valley, but have won out. To-day I am rich. Isn't it glorious? I am the happiest man on earth. I shall be in New York before noon to-morrow. I am coming to marry you, and I'm coming with a bank-roll.
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