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Updated: May 17, 2025
When next I met him it was in Gracechurch Street with a billbook chained to his waist. Business took him over London Bridge and I accompanied him. He was very full of the importance of that book and magnified it. As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer' unloading great slabs of white and brown marble.
He laid his hat on the floor and took out his billbook, in which he found two printed blanks, filled according to his terms and ready for her signature. "I thought likely we could close the deal right up, ma'am, so's I could catch the Wenatchee train this afternoon. Your name goes here above mine." She took the paper and started buoyantly to the secretary, but the little man stopped her.
He makes a bluff at bein' awful busy with the billbook; but he couldn't stay at the desk more'n three minutes at a spell. Inside of an hour I counted four times that he washed his hands and six drinks of water that he had. "You'll be damp enough to need wringin' out, if you keep that up," says I. "Keep what up?" says he.
"Crushed to death in a cattle stampede, looks like," he called to the sheriff. "Search him, Jack," the sheriff ordered. The young man gave an exclamation of surprise. He was standing with a cigarcase in one hand and a billbook in the other. "It's the man we're after it's Bellamy." Burke left his horse and came forward. "How do you know?"
"I'll bet you five hundred dollars!" said Mitchell jubilantly. He drew out a billbook and shook a handful of notes at the artist. "A thousand, if you like!" "Nobody wants to rob you, Mitchell," laughed Loring. "Put up your money. I don't need it. I'll do the trick, of course." Steve was laughing immoderately. "Rob me! Go ahead! You're welcome!" said Mitchell, riotously radiant.
The bet is made, gentlemen. I ah propose that we wing the bell foh the pwopwietah and, shahl we say, the clahk, to act as judge and stakeholdeh." "That will be satisfactory," said Loring. "Allow me, in turn, to make a suggestion, Mr. Wyatt. Put the money in your billbook, hand it to the stakeholder, and let him give it, unopened, to the winner. Of course, you will first take out your other money.
"Initials on the cigarcase, R. B. Same monogram on the billbook." The sheriff had stooped to pick up a battered hat as he moved toward the deputy. Now he showed the initials stamped on the sweat band. "R. B. here, too." "Suit of gray clothes, derby hat, size and weight about medium. We'll never know about the scar on the eyebrow, but I guess Mr. Bellamy is identified without that."
They are my responsibility, not his," she claimed with visible irritation. "And now they're my responsibility, too until I land them in the penitentiary," he added cheerfully. From his pocket he took a billbook and selected two fifty-dollar bills. These he offered to Valencia. She stood very straight. "You owe me nothing, sir." "I owe you the hundred dollars you paid to get hold of Sebastian.
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