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Belmont, I says, 'did you happen to give instructions to any more of your employees, your jockey, fur instance? "'I have adopted the method you informed me was the correct one, he says, swellin' up. 'I gave a ticket at fifty-to-one calling for one hundred and two dollars to Mr. Smith, and explained to him that I was the owner. "Before Elsy gets through I'm dopey.
It's a fifty-to-one shot. Tools are lost, the casin' collapses, the cable breaks, money gives out, shootin' is badly done, water filters in, or oil ain't there in payin' quantities. In a coupla years you can buy a deskful of no-good stock for a dollar Mex." "Then why is everybody in it?" "We've all been bit by this get-rich-quick bug.
Sunday passed by without word of their whereabouts. The stay-at-homes wondered if it was to be peace or war with maudling gangsters. Did Welborn's fifty-to-one chance fail? Davy had planned to ride over to the B-line, and go over his speech-plans with his manager and promoter. Now, it seemed necessary that he and Landy ride down to the filling station seeking news of the missing ones.
"He hit the high places right away for Bujannoff's house," Matt explained. "Go on an' read." "Was to have sailed last night at ten on the Sajoda for the South Seas steamship delayed by extra freight " "That's why we caught 'm in bed," Matt interrupted. "It was just luck like pickin' a fifty-to-one winner." "Sajoda sailed at six this mornin' " "He didn't catch her," Matt said.
"He hit the high places right away for Bujannoff's house," Matt explained. "Go on an' read." "Was to have sailed last night at ten on the Sajoda for the South Seas steamship delayed by extra freight " "That's why we caught 'm in bed," Matt interrupted. "It was just luck like pickin' a fifty-to-one winner." "Sajoda sailed at six this mornin' " "He didn't catch her," Matt said.
"Hold on, Moriarty," I interrupted, recalling myself. "Let's hear that fifty-to-one offer again. Am I to understand that if Toby has letters for the station and none for me, you win; if he has letters for me and none for the station, I win; and, failing the fulfilment of either double, the wager is off?" "That's it. Are you on?" "Make it a hundred to one." "Done! at a hundred to one in what?"
"I don't want a bet," he remarked, shaking his head at the board; "I need an accident. I wonder if that goat Angora has horns and a beard?" "People try fifty-to-one shots just before they cut their throats," warned Loring. "Hide my safety-razor then. Angora carries my hundred. I'll feed a sawbuck apiece to ten books."
I've made it a rule never to disparage the efforts of a person who had a definite purpose and works to attain it. It's about a fifty-to-one shot that he'll land sometime." Mrs. Pantin looked at her husband suspiciously. There were times when she had a notion that she had not explored the furthermost recesses of his nature when she wondered if it had not ramifications and passages unknown to her.
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