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The message flashed up to town like lightning. The man followed it slowly like the wind. MEADOWS found Mr. Clinton at Peel's. "Mr. Clinton, I want a man of intelligence to be at my service for twenty-four hours. I give you the first offer." Mr. Clinton replied that really he had so many irons in the fire that twenty-four hours Meadows put a fifty-pound note on the table.
Driven into the corral where their freight had been divided into packs of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty pounds, they were one by one saddled, cinched, and packed. A small mule would seem to be unequal to carrying two side-packs, each consisting of three fifty-pound sacks of flour, and perhaps a case of boots for a top-pack. But protests of groans and grunts would be unavailing.
There were little pink crabs sticking to him and he did not seem as fat as he should, although he topped the fifty-pound mark. "Lousy!" said Code. "Lousy and hungry! It's good fishing." With a short, stout stick at hand he wrenched the hook out of the cod's mouth, baited up, and cast again. The descending bait was rushed and seized. This time both hooks bore victims.
I don't seem to have so much luck as some fellows in hooking these fifty-pound fish lies, but I always manage to land a pretty heavy appetite and some big nights' sleep when I strike salt water. Then I can go back to the office and produce results like a hen in April with eggs at eleven cents a dozen.
'A fifty-pound bill, said he; 'I don't like changing bills of that amount, lest they should prove bad ones; however, as it comes from a Quaker gentleman, I suppose it is all right. The mention of a fifty-pound note aroused the attention of my friend, and he requested to be permitted to look at it; he had scarcely seen it, when he was convinced that it was one of the same description as those which had brought me into trouble, as it corresponded with them in two particular features, which the agent of the bank had pointed out to him and others as evidence of their spuriousness.
"Fancy getting out so quickly! Whenever I'm arrested, I must always make a point of having a rich man with me. I shall never tease you about that fifty-pound note again." "Fifty-pound note?" "It certainly came in handy today!"
Kemp, in a good rolling voice, said, "Good evening, miss; I hope you are well," and, subsiding into a chair, asked for a cigar. His surprise when he found that the best cigar they stocked only cost sixpence almost assumed the dimensions of a grievance. "It'll do to go on with," he said, smelling it suspiciously. "Have you got change for a fifty-pound note?"
But there are two ends to every equation, and at the bottom of this immense soap vat, held in solution by the water, which would afterwards be taken up by the surplus lime, was the other end of this equation; and as the yield from tallow of this other product is about thirty per cent., and as we start with eight thousand fifty-pound kids four hundred thousand pounds all of which has disappeared, we know that, sticking to the skin and sides of the barrels down here, is or was once one hundred and twenty thousand pounds, or sixty tons, of the other end of the equation glycerine!"
We were well out toward the German lines and deep under the hill when we heard them digging below us. An engineer officer came in and listened for an hour and decided that they were getting in explosives and that it was up to us to beat them to it. Digging stopped at once and we began rushing in H.E. in fifty-pound boxes. I was ordered back into supports with my section.
A blaze of sudden light filled the nook where they were sitting, and made it as bright as day, and a voice shouted out, "Ha, ha, ha! my secret coves, what's going on here? something quiet and sly, eh? something worth a fifty-pound note, eh? Don't you want an arbitrator, eh? Here's one, ready made." "You're playing a dangerous game, my flash man, whoever you are," said Lee, rising savagely.
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