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He knows the enemies he has made over in Paloma, and he understands the risks be has been taking in making such enemies. He proved to us that he can stand that sort of thing and be our friend. Look at this thing, will you?" With something of a look of wonder the speaker drew out the bankbook that he had acquired the afternoon before.
"Keep that carefully," they told him, "and in a few days your wife shall have the bankbook sent." Geissler puckered his forehead and said shortly: "Very good." But they were not finished with Geissler yet. Not that he opened his mouth to ask for anything; he simply stood there, and they saw how he stood there: maybe he had stipulated beforehand for a trifle on his own account.
His hand on the door, Bowers asked, "Your contribution for the county campaign fund ready?" "Draw you a check any time," the candidate returned jauntily. Nevertheless, when the county leader had gone Shelby gave a diligent quarter-hour to his bankbook. By and by he took an opera glass from a drawer and focussed it on the pair below.
Henry is showing me just now a bankbook which in the last nine months he is putting away eighteen hundred dollars." "That's all right, Abe," Morris said. "If he would be from unsere Leute, y'understand, instead he is putting the money in savings bank and getting 3 per cent. interest, he would invest it in something else and make it pretty near double itself soon."
The boy was as poor as poverty could make him; but he worked for his own living from the time he was seven years old." Herman had feared as much, for he doubted the check he had written and left for Hannah had ever been presented and cashed, for in the balancing of his bankbook he never saw it among the others. Meanwhile Ishmael had parted with his friends and gone home to the Washington House.
"Jim was shot last month when they tried to kill Chester Wilcox of Marley Creek," McMurdo's neighbour informed him. "The funds are good at the moment," said the treasurer, with the bankbook in front of him. "The firms have been generous of late. Max Linder & Co. paid five hundred to be left alone. Walker Brothers sent in a hundred; but I took it on myself to return it and ask for five.
And when Coupeau was asleep her busy brain was at work arranging the rooms which as yet they had not decided to hire. The next day when she was alone she lifted the shade from the clock and opened her bankbook. Just to think that her shop and future prosperity lay between those dirty leaves! Before going to her work she consulted Mme Goujet, who approved of the plan.
"He is making a fool of himself," thought Sam, and returned to his bankbook, striving in the contemplation of the totals at the foot of the pages to shake off the dull anger that had begun to burn in his brain. Glancing up again, he saw that Joe Wildman, son of the grocer and a boy of his own age, had joined the group of men laughing and jeering at Windy. The shadow on Sam's face grew heavier.
I was told that while in London he had to account to her for every penny of the money he took with him in the morning, and for every hour of his time. And she kept the bankbook, too. Those steely-blue eyes of his flashed with positive ferocity out of that black-bearded face. He impressed me there was so much dark passion in his leisurely contempt. "The cheek of the fellow!
A bankbook issued by the house of Rothschild Freres, Paris, showed a balance to the credit of H.D. Rutton of something slightly under a million francs.
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