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With a leap Bettina was out of her chair, and, catching the little girl by the hand, she drew her from me and dangled in front of her a once-silvered mesh-bag, took from it a penny, and gave it to her; then she turned to Mrs. Gibbons. "We're awful glad we've seen you." Bettina nodded gravely to the woman on the bed.
You just gimme some o' them rings an' things an' we'll call it square, me fine lady!" Phyllis's heart stood still at this open menace, but she ran on still. A sudden thought came to her. She snatched her gilt sash-buckle a pretty thing but of small value from her waist, and hurled it far behind the tramp. In the half-light it might have been her gold mesh-bag.
There being no help from that high and mighty quarter, she turned to Harleston. "Well," with a shrug of resignation, "I've lost and must pay. Here," opening the mesh-bag that she carried, "is the " She threw up her hand, and a nasty little automatic was covering the Secretary's heart. He gave a shout and sat perfectly still. Mrs.
His sight was slightly blurred. Slowly he groped for the door and closed it cautiously. "What are you talking about?" he choked, though he knew perfectly well. Georgie had thrown herself back in the leather chair by his desk and had opened her gold mesh-bag. "About five thousand dollars," she replied with the careful enunciation of a New England school-mistress. "What five thousand dollars?"
The Sheep Queen toyed idly with a gold mesh-bag suspended by a chain about her neck, and her face was sphinx-like as she waited for Wentz to speak. The check fluttered as the banker picked it up at last and held it between his two trembling hands. "Is it necessary, Miss Prentice, that you have this money at once?" Kate replied evenly: "No I can't say that. Why?"
If she lost, Aunt Abby was a good-natured waiter, and she knew Eunice would pay later. "Bridge?" said the old lady, smiling at the lovely picture Eunice made, in her low gown and her billowy satin wrap. "I thought Sanford took the car." "He did. I'm going in a taxi. What a duck you are to let me have this," as she spoke she stuffed the bills in her soft gold mesh-bag.
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