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"What's Gamble's scheme, Ben?" "I'll have to let Johnny tell you that himself," responded Courtney as Johnny entered. "Coming into this scramble, Joe?" "I'm a cautious man," hesitated Close, inspecting the faces of his companions with calm interest. "I don't think you or Mort have second cousins among your pasteboards, but the colonel is concealing his feelings too carefully."
"Go any place you say if it's not too hot there," he cheerfully assured her, and started off towards the staircase. "When I get Johnny Gamble's name this list is closed," said Polly confidently. "I'll bet with you on that," offered Bruce Townley. "Johnny probably hasn't enough money to buy a tin rattle for your babies' hotel." "No!" she protested, shocked.
Gamble's countenance brightened, and darkened and brightened again, and with a very significant look, he said to the pale, unpleasant face, pitted with small-pox 'M. M., and nodded. His companion extended his hand toward the papers. 'Never mind, said the attorney; 'there's that here will fix M. M. in a mighty tight vice. 'And who's M. M., pray? enquired Toole.
He was in a very poor way, and glad to hear that Demirep was in Dublin, and making money. When I came back I was in the Hue-and-Cry for the assault on Sturk. 'I took no precaution, not knowing what had happened; but 'twas night when we arrived, Duncan and I, and we went straight to Gamble's and he concealed me. I kept close within his house, except on one night, when I took coach.
"Ow, I say," protested Eugene, but he seemed perfectly satisfied, nevertheless. "As I understand it," went on Mr. Birchard, "Mr. Gamble's proposition is very simple. You are to execute a contract of sale to him to-day, acknowledging receipt of half a million dollars' advance payment, and are at the same time to execute a clear deed that will be placed in the hands of your agent until Mr.
"I see," said Montague. "Gamble's company is in a bad way," Oliver continued. "The Trust just about had it in a corner. But Gamble saw this chance, and he staked everything on it." "But what's his idea?" asked the other. "What good will it do him to write the specifications?" "There are five officers," said Oliver, "and he's been laying siege to every one of them.
He tried to destroy Johnny Gamble's credit with me two or three weeks ago in a most underhanded manner." There was a moment of silence, during which the pair in the bower gazed straight up at nothing. "You seem to like Mr. Gamble," mused Mrs. Courtney. "Everybody does, however. Where is he from?" "Some little town up the state," returned Courtney indifferently.
Archibald Gamble's troop of cavalry. This record was published some twenty years ago in a newspaper from which this reprint is made Decoration Day, 1915. Monday, Oct. 4, 1819. Dr. Hall and myself left Philadelphia at 1 o'clock p. m. after taking an affectionate leave of friends and acquaintances.
Willard," said the major to his adjutant, as the couriers mounted and rode away, "send one platoon over to Gamble's camp it'll take 'em all day and another back on the trail of the teamsters, and see what they can find of the outfit. They'll have to hunt for it themselves. The hunters say they wouldn't go back for a million apiece." The adjutant was figuring in his note-book.
So now they are all his intimate friends, and every one of them has come to him for help! So there will go into Washington five sets of specifications, all different, but each containing one essential point. You see, Gamble's company has a peculiar kind of oil; it contains some ingredient or other he told me the name, but I don't remember it now.
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