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I, acting as agent for these other fellows in the company, staked five more. I took in eight more men and, believe me, things were humming when I left. Lewis is a great rustler. He had out lots of timber, and we put in a wing dam three hundred feet long, so she can flood and be darned; they'll keep the sluice working just the same. And that quartz lead will justify a fifty-thousand-dollar mill.
Every considerable man in Bivouac soon had his social station assigned him, the whole community being divided into classes of "hundred-thousand-dollar monikins" "fifty-thousand-dollar monikins" "twenty-thousand-dollar monikins." Great conciseness in language was a consequence of this state of feeling. The old questions of "is he honest?" "is he capable?" "is he enlightened?" "is he wise?"
You don't think I'd make it up! That reminds me of something." And he entered a memo to see the litigious-minded complainant again, for these are the cases which often turn up in the courts with claims for fifty-thousand-dollar damages and heartrending details of all-but-mortal internal injuries. Silence held the reader until he had concluded the seventh and last sheet.
Self-denial is the road to wealth, as any banker will tell you. Self-denial is the method of all excellencies, as all human experience will tell you. But this is moralizing. I do not mean that you should decline small cases. By no means. Take a five-dollar case, and work with the same sincerity that you would on a fifty-thousand-dollar case. "Despise not the day of small things."
"I tried my best to scare Courtney away from him with that attachment, but he insisted on clinging to his Johnny Gamble; so we'll hand him enough of Johnny by laying a fifty-thousand-dollar attachment against his property." "You're a funny cuss," said Collaton, puzzled. "If you wanted to soak him for this fifty thousand why did you try to scare Courtney off?"
"A fifty-thousand-dollar a year man," supplied Edmonds. "Well, getting toward that figure. I'm on the target with the editorials and I'm going to hold on it. But our news policy is different. We still wobble there." "What do you want! Look at the circulation. Isn't that good enough?" "No.
"Well, when I win the fifty-thousand-dollar prize in the lottery," said the widow, "we shall set off on our travels too my daughter and I; and you, Herr Alfred, shall be our escort. We shall all three go, and a few other friends will go with us, I hope;" and she bowed invitingly to them all round, so that each individual might have thought, "It is I she wishes to accompany her."
"You'll have 'em," assured Jimmy. Such talk made Daly tired, and he said so. "Why, it'll take you a week to get her over those confounded shallows," he concluded. "You got to get more men, Jimmy." "I've tried," answered the boss. "They ain't no more men to be had." "Suffering Moses!" groaned the owner. "It means the loss of a fifty-thousand-dollar contract to me. You needn't tell me!
Parker flushed. "Can you produce that fifty-thousand-dollar check? I happen to know it has not been cashed." "No, I cannot, Mr. Parker." Kay opened her purse and tossed the check across to her father. "It was drawn in your favor, dad," she informed him; "so I concluded it was your property, and when Mr. Farrel came by it ah, illegally and showed it to me, I retained it." "Good girl! Mr.
Why, only last week I actually offered to deliver a fifty-thousand-dollar franchise on a ten per cent. commission basis, provided I was given a beggarly two hundred advance for expenses and had it turned down!" "Ye-e-es," says I. "The way some of them Wall Street plutes shrink from bein' made richer is painful, ain't it? But I don't see where I fit in." Mr.
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