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"I'll take my commission in the five-thousand-dollar hours you donate to the Babies' Fund Fair. By the way, from whom do you suppose that option was purchased?" "Gresham?" inquired Johnny promptly and with such a thrill of startled intensity in his tone that Constance could not repress a giggle. "No, James Collaton," she informed him. "That's all the news. Hurry, now!
But if you think you can restrain her I'll be willing to let it go and have her bound over to keep the peace." "Oh, that'll be fine! If she just promises not to bother you and " "And puts up a five-thousand-dollar bond," added Wiley. "And the next time she makes a gun-play or comes around and threatens me the five thousand dollars is gone." "Oho!" she accused, "so that's your scheme!
"Sure, I know," Pasinsky agreed, "but how much did you sell Kuhner? A thousand or two thousand at the outside. With me, Mr. Potash, I wouldn't bother myself to stop off in Chicago at all if I couldn't land at least a five-thousand-dollar order from Simon Kuhner, of Mandleberger Brothers & Co., and we will say four thousand with Chester Prosnauer, of the Arcade Mercantile Company."
The young fellow gasped. "This is the twentieth century with a vengeance," he murmured, sinking back in his rear seat, which was as comfortably upholstered as the luxurious tonneau of a five-thousand-dollar automobile. Like a darting, pouncing swallow, seeking its food in mid-air, the Golden Butterfly swooped, soared and dived in long, graceful gradients above the Mortlake plant.
A near horse gave me a five-thousand-dollar start." "If you keep on at the rate of five thousand dollars an hour you'll have your million in two hundred hours," Constance figured for him. "I won't work Sundays, evenings, holidays or birthdays," he objected. "How fussy!" commented Polly. "Which was the kind horse?" "A goat by the name of Angora," he replied.
Word was sent at once, by telegraph, to all the cities where reward posters had been displayed, recalling the offer, and stating that Tom Swift and Mr. Damon were cleared. Mr. Sharp had never been really accused. "Well, let's go home," suggested Tom when he had the five-thousand-dollar check in his pocket. "I want another ride in the Red Cloud as soon as it's repaired." "So do I!" declared Mr.
This all cut and dried before I got there. Now, as it originally stood, the five of us would each have made a small fortune on these Klappan claims. They're good. But with a quarter of a million in outstanding stock well, it would be all right for the fellow with a big block. But you can see where I would get off with a five-thousand-dollar interest.
The five-thousand-dollar reward was as yet unpaid, and the papers he held didn't seem to impress the functionaries nearly so much as he had expected. It began to look as though Bi had missed his chances in life once more, and when he took his old seat in the fire-house and smoked, he said very little.
"No, come to think of it, I don't believe I ever did." "I knowed you didn't," exclaimed Racey, triumphantly. "I tell you that wheel is crooked." "Not so loud," cautioned Mr. Dale. "They'll hear you in the house." "Don't they know nothing about it a-tall?" probed Racey. "They know about the five-thousand-dollar mortgage," admitted Dale, reluctantly. Racey rubbed his chin.
The lawyer who works his way up from a five-dollar fee in a suit before a justice of the peace, to a five-thousand-dollar fee before the Supreme Court of his State, has a long and hard path to climb.
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