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All of the other cadets watched the proceedings with interest, and were sorry they could not go on the proposed trip. But Frank promised that all should have their turns later on. A fair breeze was blowing, and no sooner was the mainsail raised than the Fiver, moved off in such a lively fashion that Tom, who had lingered behind, had all he could do to run and get on board. "We're off!
If they don't add six to the score, it will be the fault of their legs. But no: they rest content with a fiver and cherish their wind. Yet more they mean to do, Success does not turn the heads of these Britons, as it would of your frivolous foreigners. The boys are boys of both villages: but they are British boys they adore prowess.
I used to hear him, when he thought no one was listening, go and call a cheerful word up the stairs 'Shop full of customers! 'Sold another bottle of hair restorer! or something of that sort. Then some one lent him a fiver, and, by Jove, he turned the corner! He's doing well now. That's his wife the plump little woman who's straightening his tie.
As to money, well, so far as a fiver or even a tenner goes you can always look to me." Even in his chastened frame of mind, the noble miser could give us no information which could help us, for he knew little of the private life of his nephew. Our only clue lay in the truncated telegram, and with a copy of this in his hand Holmes set forth to find a second link for his chain.
"I want a letter with the Boldham postmark, or perhaps a telegram, that will be delivered to-morrow night by the last post. There's a fifty pounds turns on it, and I must have it before the morning papers are out. Never mind what it is; you must get it somehow, and you'll get a fiver for it. As soon as that's done, Medlock, and the young dandies' bills have come due, we can order a cab.
After a while said Gilly of the Goatskin, "The night's coming on and the fiver shows no sign of turning back. I wish there was a nice place to shelter us." No sooner did he say the word than he and the Weasel found them-selves standing before the open door of a nice little house. They went in.
The 'big money' was all in the handicap, and there was a big field, with two or three cracks up from Sydney, and a very good local horse that all the diggers were sweet on. It was an open race, and every man that had a note or a fiver laid it out on one horse or another. Rainbow had been entered in proper time and all regular by old Jacob, under the name of Darkie, which suited in all ways.
"What did he say when you told him he was crazy?" "Oh, went locoed clean out of his head, kicked my hat off the bed post, took out a fiver, said, 'Wayland, that's my last! I'll bet it a hundred odd you do the very thing I'm outlining tonight." "It was a safe bet," said Eleanor. "He had come to see me before he went to you!
"Well I'm a lawyer too and a pretty sharp one /arcades ambo/," said Johnnie with a coarse laugh; "and I tell you what it is, Edith, it ain't good enough to cart a fellow down in this howling wilderness and then send him away without a drink; lend us another fiver at any rate. It ain't good enough, I say." "Good enough or not you'll have to go and you don't get any fivers out of me to-night.
I can just see him!" she cried. "And then what did you do?" "Well, we went along to this pal of Jimmy's, and Jimmy borrowed a fiver. He gave me three pounds, and took me along to have a dinner. And well, we've been pals ever since. A bit of luck for me, wasn't it?" "I was thinking," said little Christine very earnestly, "that it was a bit of luck for Jimmy." Sangster grew furiously red.
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