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As long as the money in the bank lasts I forget what it is, several thousand, more than twenty, I think we'll go along as we are. Joe has a half-interest in a patent, anyway, some sort of curtain-pole; it's always going to make us a fortune!"
It backfired on him, and his wife is such a little fool that he had to promise to give up automobiling." "They are splendid cars, with a record of fifty miles on the track, unstripped and out of stock!" "And you shall have half-interest in it, Virgie!" "I never could pay fourteen hundred dollars, Morty, and I don't want any more of pa's blanks. It's too exasperating." "Oh, I meant for nothing!"
The bad whisky attended to that. He worked himself into a great sorrow for himself and Bill, and his tears were sincere when he told how he and his partner were thinking of selling a half-interest in good ground just because they were short of grub. Even Kink listened and believed. Ans Handerson's eyes were shining unholily as he asked, "How much you tank you take?"
Then he paid the creditor the full amount obtained from Henry as the price of his half-interest and received in return an assignment of $500 of the creditor's claim and a guarantee that he should not be troubled by Henry for it. Thus his own promptness rescued Barnum from one of the most unpleasant situations in which he was ever placed.
For old Bill Harris had left her a full half-interest in everything he owned on earth with the single stipulation that she retain her half of the Three Bar for five years after her father's death. "But why?" she asked presently. "Why did he do that for me? He'd never seen me since I was three years old."
"And say you growed up without breakin' your laig and went to punchin' cattle and earnin' your own money, and then mebby you got a job in the Ranger Service, ridin' the high trails and livin' free and independent; and suppose a mighty pretty gal was to come along and kind of let you take a shine to her, and you was doin' your plumb durndest to put by a little money, aimin' to trot in double harness some day; and then suppose your daddy was to offer you a half-interest in a growin' cattle business, where you could be your own boss and put by a couple of thousand a year.
He proposes to transport the city on rails and to change it into a watering-place. The profit, of course, would be enormous. Mr. Smith, captivated by the scheme, bought a half-interest in it. "As you are aware, sir," began applicant No. 3, "by the aid of our solar and terrestrial accumulators and transformers, we are able to make all the seasons the same. I propose to do something better still.
"It sure looms up like that on the surface," he admitted ruefully. "But I didn't have a hand in cinching you this way." "You could have proved that by staying away. I wrote you a year ago that I'd donate you a half-interest in the Three Bar at the expiration of the time if you'd only keep off the place. But at the last moment you couldn't resist having it all.
The equality of the wife with her husband was strictly enjoined, not only in the marriage ceremony, but also by law, which gave her full control of her own property and a half-interest in the possessions held by them both in common.
Did Joan wear your ring when she went home?" "No, she didn't wear my ring, Mary, but she would have worn it if I'd seen her before she was sent away." "I thought you were at the bottom of it, John," the wise Mary said. "You know, dad's taken her sheep away from her, and she had a half-interest in at least a thousand head." "I didn't know that, but it will not make any difference to Joan and me.
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