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"Na, thanks be. Gin there were there'd be no room for Adam M'Adam in this 'melancholy vale." There was silence a moment, and then : "You're wantin' a tyke, bain't you, Mr. M'Adam?" Jim asked. The little man hopped round all in a hurry. "What!" he cried in well-affected eagerness, scanning the yellow mongrel beneath the chair. "Betsy for sale! Guid life! Where's ma check-book?"
You wait till old Murray begins to ship!" "Ah er well, I'll give you fifteen hundred," conceded the Colonel drawing out his check-book and pen. "That's the best I can possibly do." "Well save your check then, because I'm a long ways from broke. What d'ye think of that for a roll?" Denver drew out his roll of prize money, with a hundred dollar bill on top, and flickered the edges of the twenties.
"No, ma'am, you had it on yer arm when I noticed last," said Kate, looking startled. "Fur all the saints, I hope ye haven't lost it!" Angela, too, began to look anxious. Not only was her bag valuable worth seven or eight hundred dollars but all her money was in it, and a check-book she had brought out that morning, to pay Monsieur Bienvenu the rather large sum she owed him.
To touch them by personal effort and contact was out of the question; he could not bring himself to attempt it, nor would it have availed anything, perhaps, if he had, for the East-siders would have shrunk from his gloves as instinctively as he did from their work-darkened palms. But there was the other resort of his check-book.
"Yes," answered Peter in a perplexed tone "yes Holker has gone to Chicago and won't be back for a week." He, too, had thought of Morris and the instantaneous way in which he would have reached for his check-book. "And you must have it by Monday night?" Peter continued, his thoughts bringing into review one after the other all the moneyed men he knew. "Well well that IS a very short notice.
It was a blow, Baron the worst setback in my whole campaign. But thanks to my check-book and the good Altamont all will be well to-night." The Baron looked at his watch and gave a guttural exclamation of disappointment. "Well, I really can wait no longer. You can imagine that things are moving at present in Carlton Terrace and that we have all to be at our posts.
He had crept back to bed, and wide-awake, he had worked it all out in his mind. It was his money which Hilda wanted, the things that he could give her; he meant to her pink parasols and satin slippers, and diamonds and pearls and ermines and sables, and a check-book, with unlimited credit everywhere.
It was Tusitala's, and again he saw the road dug to last for ever, in the white light of the tropic skies. He sat with his head on his hand a moment, and then, slowly reaching for his check-book filled out a blank, signed it, and sealed it in an envelope.
Wallie stopped him with a gesture. "No, you don't! I take no chances when I play with crooks. You make out that check." "Isn't my word good?" Canby demanded. "Not so far as I can throw my horse." "I haven't a check-book," he lied. "Get it, Pink." The check-book and indelible pencil which every sheep and cattleman carries were in the inside pocket of his coat. "Fill it out."
But ten borrowers are lying in wait for him. The quickest, the most adroit, is Cardailhac, the manager, who hooks him and carries him off into an empty salon. "Let us talk a bit, my good friend. I must set before you the condition of our theatre." A very complicated condition, no doubt; for here comes Monsieur Bompain again, and more sky-blue leaves fly away from the check-book.
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