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See here: ten five-hundred-dollar bills, and this change that we lost in Chicago; and four ten-dollar bills and four fives that were lost here. They are the same bills. Who put them here?" "I don't know," replied Mrs. Lively in a low tone: "I didn't." She spoke as though she was dealing with something supernatural. In the case of sea-weeds, the only thing that came through the fire!
Now, you see that old babe-in-the-wood over there? Well, he's the boy that drew the prize. That was the only five-hundred-dollar lot that went. The rest ranged from ten dollars to two hundred. His wife writes poetry. She's invented one about the high grounds of Georgia, that's way up in G. They're going to Skyland to open a book store."
Afraid people would know he had money if he kept it in the bank afraid of a bank, too. Understand? We found out that every once in a while he'd change a lot of small bills for a big one five-hundred-dollar bills thousand-dollar bills. That put us wise. We began to watch him. It took months to find where he hid it. We've spent night after night searching through his shop. You can get in easily.
"Here I go to work an' make a fortune for a pair of short sports an' pikers an' you get to squealin' at the first five-hundred-dollar loss. I know you of old, Phineas Scraggs, an' the leopard can't change his spots." He raised his right hand to heaven. "I'm through for keeps. We'll sell the pearls to-day, divvy up, an' dissolve. I'm through." "Glad of it," growled McGuffey.
"If there were any backbone in the man he would not be paying me eighty dollars a year on a five-hundred-dollar loan discounted." Hazen grinned at me triumphantly. "I wonder if he will come back," I said. "Besides," Hazen continued, "he lied to me. He told me the eleven-fifty was all he had." "Yes," I agreed. "There is no doubt he lied to you." Hazen had a letter to write and he bent to it.
Fifteen thousand dollars all in big new bills, five-hundred-dollar bills I t'ink dey was dat's wot!" "How d'youse know it was fifteen thousand?" demanded another voice. There was a short, vicious laugh; then the voice of the first speaker again: "'Cause I heard him say so, an' de old guy counted it, an' sealed it up in an envelope, an' gave Curley a receipt, an' tucked de green boys into de safe.
He always carried a five-hundred-dollar bill against emergencies and this he had clung to through all his adventures. He now produced it from his inner waistcoat pocket and slipped it into her hand. Her brow clouded for an instant; then she smiled radiantly. "I oughtn't to take it; but I know you mean it all right.
"I bought ma and Etta each one of them handbags to-day at Lauer's for nine dollars. What they don't know about the price won't hurt them. Two for nine I'll tell them." "To this day ma believes that five-hundred-dollar bar pin I brought her two years ago from Pittsburgh cost fifty at auction." "There's Moe Marx from Kansas City just coming in! Spy the blonde he's with, will you?
Old Jacob counted out to him twenty five-hundred-dollar bills. That was better, he thought, than a check. Thomas put them thoughtfully into his pocket. "Grandfather's best thanks," he said, "to the party who sends it." Jacob talked on, asking him about his work, how he spent his leisure time, and what his ambitions were. The more he saw and heard of Thomas, the better he liked him.
J. Pinkney Bloom excused himself, went forward, and stood by the captain at the wheel. "Mac," said he, "do you remember my telling you once that I sold one of those five-hundred-dollar lots in Skyland?" "Seems I do," grinned Captain MacFarland. "I'm not a coward, as a general rule," went on the promoter, "but I always said that if I ever met the sucker that bought that lot I'd run like a turkey.
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