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Updated: May 18, 2025
He slammed the little roll down on the bar. "Come get it, if you want it." Packard promptly stepped forward, taking the money. "I figured there was a chance to make ten dollars, easy money, if I just walked across the street for it," he said, looking pleasantly from Hodges to Blenham. "Sure, I want it. It's luck-money; didn't you know?
"Ah! the wretches!" he exclaimed. "I am no longer surprised at the luck-money they gave me a louis and two five-franc pieces for the fare thirty francs in all. Cursed money! If I hadn't spent it, I'd throw it away!" "And where did you drive them?" "To the Rue de Bourgogne. I have forgotten the number, but I should recognize the house."
From that fact Steve drew a deep satisfaction. For there would have been no reason for indecision if Blenham knew that he had those other, bigger bank-notes, safe. At the rear of the long room a man was dealing cards for seven-and-a-half. As though to demonstrate the truth of his boast about "luck-money" Steve stepped to the table, the roll of bills in his hand. He was dealt a card.
Dear, dear, only to think we should have ever met again," and going to a trunk she took out of a bark-box a silver sixpence with a hole in it, by which it was suspended on a black ribbon. "See, Sir, do you recollect that, you gave that to me for a keepsake? you said it was 'luck-money." "Well," sais I, "if that don't pass, don't it?
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