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They proffered him their paper to the extent of three thousand each. "Hold out for the dust," Shorty cautioned. "I was about to intimate that I'd take the money weighed out," Smoke said. The owner of the Elkhorn cashed their paper, and Shorty took possession of the gold-dust. "Now, I don't want to wake up," he chortled, as he hefted the various sacks. "Toted up, it's a seventy thousan' dream.
"Good heavens!" he muttered after a moment's silence. "You don't mean it?" "Fact!" answered Jettison. "Plain, incontestable fact, my lad. Dr. Bryce keeps an account at the Wrychester bank. On the day I'm speaking of he cashed a cheque to self for fifty pounds and took it all in gold." The two men looked at each other as if each were asking his companion a question.
Jornicroft at all," said I. "It impressed my tailor, who cashed it, deducting a quarter of his bill." "Do you mean to say, my dear Adrian," I questioned, "that you went to your tailor with a cheque for a hundred pounds and said, 'I want to pay you a quarter of what I owe you, will you give me change?" "Of course."
We cashed in our savings, we drew on everything there was to draw on, and on February 1, 1909, the three of us embarked for Harvard with fifty-six dollars and seventy-five cents excess-baggage to pay at the depot, such young ignoramuses we were. That trip East was worth any future hardship we might have reaped.
Meredith is a little too deep or too subtle for Strauss unless it be granted that cynicism is more a part of comedy than a part of refined-insult. Let us also remember that Mr. Disston, not Mr. Strauss, put the funny notes in the bassoon. A symphony written only to amuse and entertain is likely to amuse only the writer and him not long after the check is cashed.
This Lawrence Pentfield did at the end of two hours' plunging, when the dealer bit the end off a fresh cigar and struck a match as he announced that the bank was broken. Pentfield cashed in for forty thousand, shook hands with Nick Inwood, and stated that it was the last time he would ever play at his game or at anybody's else's. No one knew nor guessed that he had been hit, much less hit hard.
But there were many other transactions carried on at the office of the Mutual Loan Society, for its largest means of income was drawn from even less respectable sources, and it was alleged that many of these bogus bills which are occasionally cashed by some respectable bankers were manufactured there. At any rate, Verminet managed to make money somehow.
"'Nacherally, I looks, an' I at once realizes the roots of that consternation of Peg-laig's. It's this: While thar's more of them button molds in front of Peg-laig's right elbow than we embarks with orig'nal, thar's still twenty-two hundred dollars' worth in the hands of the Rock Island pop'lace waitin' to be cashed. However do they do it?
"Oh, yes; I read an order for 20,000 francs to which your name is affixed." "And payable at " "Thomson & French, in Rome." "You perhaps doubt whether these gentlemen will honor my signature." "Oh, master, your signature is as good as ready cash!" "Well, then, go to the first banker you can find and have the check cashed."
'Well, then, said Morris, 'what have you done with the money? 'I know nothing about any money, said Pitman. 'You needn't try that on, said Morris. 'I have tracked you down; you came to the station sacrilegiously disguised as a clergyman, procured my barrel, opened it, rifled the body, and cashed the bill. I have been to the bank, I tell you!
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