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He began to see it as more than a possibility, as even a probability, at least as a fifty-fifty chance. A sardonic grin hovered about the corners of his grim mouth.
Is Rad's case hopeless?" "Oh, no, not yet. Of course it isn't yet sure that he will ever see again, but, on the other hand, it isn't decided that he can't. It's a fifty-fifty proposition." "But what makes you so serious?" "Was I?" "I should say so! You haven't told me one funny thing that Mr. Damon has said lately." "Oh, haven't I? Well, let me see now," and he sent the machine up a little.
As an exhibition of perfect co-ordination and instantaneous timing under extreme physical difficulties, I have never seen its equal." "You certainly saved all our lives," Margaret added. "Only fifty-fifty, Peg," Seaton protested, and blushed vividly. "Mart did most of it, you know. I'd have gummed up everything back there if he had let me. Let's see what we can find out about them."
He passed from the room with a certain sad dignity. A moment later he reappeared. 'A thought strikes me, he said. 'The fifty-fifty proposition does not impress you. Would it make things easier if I were to offer my cooperation for a mere quarter of the profit? 'Not in the least. 'It's a handsome offer. 'Wonderfully. I'm afraid I'm not dealing on any terms.
You and the chaplain and the warden and the jury! I didn't take that money!" "I didn't mean I was wrong on that point," proceeded Wagg, remorselessly. "But I had watched you bang around your cell and I concluded that you was ready to make about a fifty-fifty split of the swag with the chap who could get you out of here. If you're still stuffy, you'll have to stay that way and stay in here, too!"
If it was a square fight, and us bote wit de same chance, I wouldn't say; but you bein' a dude perfessor and gettin' right into de place like dat ain't right. Say, don't be a hawg, Sam. Don't swipe it all. Fifty-fifty! Does dat go? 'I don't know, I said. 'You had better ask the real Sam. Good night. I walked past him and made for the school gates at my best pace. He trotted after me, pleading.
We'll reorganize the syndicate, an' the minute me an' Neils finds ourselves with a bill o' sale for a one quarter interest in the Victor, based on the actual cost price, we'll tow this here barge " "An' split the profits on the codfish?" Scraggs queried eagerly. "Certainly not. Me an' Neils splits that fifty-fifty.
Old Jimmie, turned greenishly pale, shrank away from Barney, his every expression proclaiming his guilt. Then Maggie again found her voice: "And at about the same time Barney was trying to double-cross Jimmie Carlisle, Barney proposed to me that, after we'd got Dick Sherwood's money, we'd tell Jimmie Carlisle we'd got very little, and divide the real money fifty-fifty between just us two."
'The episode is closed. I am a man of peace, and I take it that you would not keep on lying quietly on that bed while I went into the other room and abstracted our young friend? Unless you have changed your mind again, would a fifty-fifty offer tempt you? 'Not an inch. 'Just so. I merely asked. 'And how about Mr Abney, in any case? Suppose we met him on the stairs?
It must be madness, this insane prompting that moved him to talk love to this girl. The first time he had met her, after a scant hour of conversation, he had made that equivocal remark: "How about fifty-fifty an undivided half?" And many times since, when he came to think of it, he had wondered how the words had slipped out.
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