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"How 'bout takin' 'im into the mountains?" asked Pete in a low voice. "No, that won't be necessary now. We need him to put the case before Jerkline Jo. I'm against violence, anyway, in the main. And I'm not a hog, like a certain person I might mention if it weren't for Hooker's overhearing it. We'll let him go, and dicker later. Half suits me."
He could do his part in the day's work, be a man among men, dicker with the importers at the Salem Custom House and as Consul at Liverpool, rub effectively with the traders, but his choice was always for solitude, he liked to go for days without speaking to a human being and to live withdrawn from the contacts of the world, even from his neighbours and family.
Here again the result was poor, for the men, mindful of the possibility of militia service, were very unwilling to part with their arms. Yet the men had an ineradicable propensity to dicker among themselves. Arms and equipment changed hands in true Yankee fashion; even clothing was traded in, and the camp, when the men were off duty, must at times have been as busy as a market.
And I told him so flatly; I told him he wasn't fit to be trusted with the coupons of a repudiated South American bond " "Hold on, Austin. That isn't the way to tackle a boy like that!" "Isn't it? Well, why not? Do you expect me to dicker with him?" "No; but, Austin, you've always been a little brusque with him. Don't you think " "No, I don't.
The darky was inclined to be talkative, as is usually the case, and even followed them half a mile along the bank, trying to find some basis for a dicker. "Thank goodness he can't cross that creek!" exclaimed Maurice, as they passed the mouth of quite a good sized stream that flowed into the enormous river, adding its mite to the gigantic flood.
Make your dicker on that basis; take no less. If your cousin can't swing it, we'll go elsewhere. "Tell him our proposition would be a gracious gift at two millions, undeveloped; but we're not selling. Tell him there'll be a million needed for development before there'll be a dollar of return.
Well, by givin' up the best part of the forenoon to the job I ground him down onto not tryin' to dicker with any barter, but to walk up like a man and pay for our two boards. Faith is real well off and kinder independent sperited, and I knew she wouldn't let us pay for hern, and at last we got a good comfortable room for ourselves and one for Faith, not fur from ourn.
If he have brains, they dicker with him and let him in on their deals for a share in his. St. Louis is a close corporation. Less than twenty men run it. Jim Campbell, Dave Francis, Geo. A. Madill, Sam Kennard, Ed. Butler, Charlie Maffit, John Sculin, Edwards Wittaker, Thomas H. West, Julius S. Walsh, George E. Leighton and a few more own the town. They dare do anything.
You can put in the money we were going for, and I'll put in some more. Ought to show a handsome profit." "Might nigh double my money, maybe, eh? Figger that? Gimme twict as much to buy stock with." "Yes, indeed." "Let's dicker." "What will you men take to walk away and leave that gold?" "Forty thousand." "Fiddlesticks. I'll give you ten and you're clear of the whole mess." There was a wrangle.
But that fevered mind had recurred to early scenes and the babble which came to my ears was all of mining camps in the Rockies and the dicker of horses. Perhaps the uneasy movement of my horse pulling at the end of his tether had disturbed him. Perhaps
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