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Bromfield had slipped him a fifty-dollar bill and naturally he resented it." Miss Whitford's face bubbled with reminiscent mirth. She looked a question at Clay. "What do you suppose that impudent young scalawag did with the fifty?" "Got drunk on it most likely." "He fed it to his horse. Clary was furious."
"I will give nothing," he replied; "there are enough who will give to her; what I have to give shall go to the unworthy poor, whom none will help, the Devil's poor, Sir, those whom Christians leave to the Devil." Many a minister has been sorely puzzled by the receipt of a fifty-dollar bill "for the relief of the depraved."
Again and again they said good-bye; but there is something in the word which makes us linger. "Some little keepsake, sweetheart," he whispered "this ribbon, or your handkerchief." "No; wait here a minute," she answered. Carefully entering the house, she crept to her room, and from its hiding-place brought forth a fifty-dollar gold piece.
He drew out a flat package of currency bound together with rubber bands. His sharp teeth drew off one of the rubbers. From the bundle he stripped four fifty-dollar bills and handed them to Otero. "Peel this kid off'n my leg and hit the trail, Juan. I don' care where you leave him so long as you keep an eye on him till afternoon."
"I should have thought it would have been more. Men are usually generous when they are getting married." "He was takin' on a rather expensive bit of stuff, unless I am much mistaken, an' p'raps he was just rememberin' it." In this ingenuous fashion was a poor woman neatly headed off the scent of a fifty-dollar bill. She rang the knell of a new hat by her next question.
I came out into that first gasolineless, dreamlike Sunday we had during the war. A single, forlorn, drooping fifty-dollar horse, which I could have had for a few minutes perhaps for a hundred dollars, greeted me. I mocked the driver a little, and walked on, feeling irreverent about human nature. I went over and stood and looked up Madison Avenue and looked down Madison Avenue.
She continued to like her work, and became more and more of a favorite, both with her companions and her employers. The affair of the fifty-dollar bill had been thoroughly explained, and for a time Katie was looked upon quite as a martyr heroine.
It was his native humanity that made him shelter the runaway, and it must have been strong and genuine to make him resist the lure of the fifty-dollar prize. There was another chapter to this incident.
I have been thinking my little girl might perhaps be glad of a little extra pocket-money for buying Christmas gifts," he said, taking out his purse. "Would you?" "Yes, papa; oh! very much, indeed." He laughed at her eager tone, and putting a fifty-dollar note into her hand, asked, "Will that be enough?" Elsie's eyes opened wide with astonishment.
"The allotment of Dorfield," he added, "is one million dollars, seemingly a huge sum for our little city to raise and invest, but really insignificant when apportioned among those who can afford to subscribe. There is not a man among you who cannot without hardship purchase at least one fifty-dollar bond. Many of you can invest thousands.
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