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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Nine out of ten come-on houses," said Baker, "and all exclusive. If you can't afford iron gates, you can at least put up a pair of shingled pillars. It's the game." "Will these lots ever be sold?" asked Bob. "Out here, yes," replied Baker. "That's part of the joke. The methods are on the blink, but the goods insist on delivering themselves. Most of these fellows are just bunks or optimists.
He would lie quietly in his Crib for Hours at a time looking up at the Ceiling and computing Compound Interest on the $5 Gold Piece that had been put in the Bank, to be drawn out when he should be 21. His Parents gave him a Biblical Name so so as to make him a strong Come-On for Investors who belong to the Pious Element. Hezekiah Hooper is what they christened him.
Jerry with all his skill in the line of shooting had never been given the opportunity to kill a bear, and he felt that the time had gone by for him to class Bluff as a "come-on." They spent a joyful evening, though, going over the exciting incidents of the last forty-eight hours again and again. "And to think that we have only been up here a few days, boys.
"It cost me $14,000 and I sold it for $20,000," I said, slowly. We stopped and shook hands. "Who's the come-on?" he asked, presently. "Uncle Peter," I answered, "but the old boy has so much he has to kick a lot of it out of the house every once in a while, so it's all right."
"Tut, tut, Peyton!" says I. "Ain't you gettin' in kind of deep?" "Don't be absurd, Torchy," says he. "Just because I show a little natural interest in a charming young woman it doesn't follow that " "Look!" says I. "Someone's givin' you the come-on signal." Course, it's Lucy Lee.
"It can't be possible that a seasoned veteran of two years' experience can pick up points from a come-on?" "I strained my leg a bit yesterday, and the coach advised me to give it a rest for a day. When I tackle I'm apt to go at a man without regard to consequences; and sometimes the jar is fierce," explained Tony, sneeringly.
Will you advance me twenty dollars and keep the trunk as security? That, I think, is a sporting proposition." He eyed me up and down. "Are you a surveyor? Connected with the road?" "No." "What is your business, then?" "I'm a damned fool," I confessed. "I'm a gudgeon I'm a come-on. In fact, as I've said before, I'm out here looking for health, where it's high and dry." He smiled.
"I'd either buy out or buy in with Tony Garci, who has a concession, and plant Maizie right at the tent-flap as a 'come-on. Her name would have to be Madame Tousan, or Princess Caraza, or some such, and she would have to dress the part. Black and red, maybe, with plastered hair and a coppery skin. A quart of rings and bracelets on each hand and arm, horseshoe earrings, and a big ostrich fan.
Furthermore I'm laying myself open to action for libel, so I must not be quoted. But I want you to understand that Stella was inescapably wound up with all of Manton's financial schemes. His money maneuvers determined her social life, her friends everything. She was then, as Enid Faye will be now, his come-on, his decoy. Manton has no scruples of any sort whatsoever.
"Yes," said Bob. "Ever been there before?" "No." "Great country! If you listen to all the come-on stuff you may be disappointed at first." "How's that?" asked Bob, highly amused. "Isn't the place what it's cracked up to be?" "It's more," asserted Baker, "but not the same stuff.
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