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"Grandpa," they heard him scream a moment later. "Hurry! Come quick! Here's my kite! The Lib'ty Bonds kite!" Sure enough, there it was, just as it had caught in the tree the missing kite. And still pasted to the strips of wood were Grandpa's two five-hundred-dollar Liberty Bonds! "No wonder we couldn't find 'em!" cried Sunny Boy, dancing with excitement. "I knew I saw it fall in a tree!
See you again, sir." At eleven Thomas delivered some bunches of parsley and lettuce at the Spraggins mansion. Thomas was only twenty-two; so, as he came back, he took out the handful of five-hundred-dollar bills and waved them carelessly. Annette took a pair of eyes as big as creamed onion to the cook. "I told you he was a count," she said, after relating. "He never would carry on with me."
"Miss West stands self-convicted." I was not there that night." "You are a woman of wiles. That could be managed by one bent on an elaborate scheme of revenge." "And so could the abstraction of Mrs. Barnum's five-hundred-dollar handkerchief by one who sat in the next box," chimed in Miss Hughson, edging away from the friend to whose honour she would have pinned her faith an hour before.
There was much more a detailed account of the crime for the commission of which Billy had been sentenced, a full and complete description of Billy, a record of his long years of transgression, and, at last, the mention of a five-hundred-dollar reward that the authorities had offered for information that would lead to his arrest.
Mollie's boat was easily recovered, and the handkerchiefs that had been stuffed in the hole were of some service afterward, though rather stained by river water. The missing plug was found fast under a seat brace, which accounted for it not floating. As for the five-hundred-dollar bill, nothing was heard of the owner, and it, with the attached paper, remained in Mr. Nelson's safe.
"John," said the general, one day, as they were dividing their first five-hundred-dollar fee, "you're a lucky dog. Everything comes so easily with you. Let me tell you something; I've figured this out: if you don't give it back some way give it back to the world, or society, or your fellows, or God, if you like to bunch your good luck under one head, you're surely going to suffer for it.
It's only you 'ain't got the stuff in you to stand up under a five-hundred-dollar windfall and a and a sporty girl. If if two glasses of beer make you as silly as they do, Jimmie, why, five hundred dollars would land you under the table for life." "Aw-there you go again!" "I can't help it, Jimmie. It's because I never knew a fellow had what's he's cut out for written all over him so.
It was disconcertingly loud, in the first place, and it came out upon the promontories of speech with a flat whang that fairly made you jump. Its undulations of pitch gave you something the same sensation as riding rapidly over a worn-out asphalt pavement in a five-hundred-dollar automobile; unforeseen springs into the air, descents into unexpected pits.
The same three men came back to the house with me, and entered my office, where the burly one turned over to me ten five-hundred-dollar bills. They left almost immediately, and although it was close on to dawn, I went into my dark room, and developed the negative of the thumbnail photograph I had taken.
So, true to years of training, Sergeant Flannagan melted into the shadows of a store entrance and waited until the two should have come closer. They were directly opposite him when the truth flashed upon him the big fellow was Billy Byrne, and there was a five-hundred-dollar reward out for him. And then the two turned and disappeared down the stairway that led to the underground restaurant.