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Updated: June 5, 2025
They showed you where the jack was before they throwed, and it surely looked like a picnic, but it wasn't." "Three-card monte," said Newmark. "How much?" asked Simms. "About fifty dollars," replied the boy. Orde turned on the disgruntled cook. "And you had fifty in your turkey, camping with this outfit of hard citizens!" he cried. "You ought to lose it."
Both the contestants named broke their nine pair straight. Bobby sent strong little waves of hope for a miss after each of Mr. Newmark's targets, but without avail. Only one pair apiece remained to be shot at; and in order that Mr. Kincaid should win the match, it would be necessary that Newmark should miss both. This was inconceivable.
"Well, we'll just try not to hang her," replied Orde. Orde's bank account, in spite of his laughing assertion to Newmark, contained some eleven hundred dollars. After a brief but comprehensive tour of inspection over all the works then forward, he drew a hundred of this and announced to Newmark that business would take him away for about two weeks.
"Proceed," said he shrewdly. "As security in case he cannot pay the notes the firm will have to give, he has signed an agreement to turn over to me his undivided one-half interest in our enterprises." "Vell? You vant to borrow dot money of me?" asked Heinzman. "I could not raise it." "I know that perfectly well," replied Newmark coolly.
"Now," went on Newmark, "if we were to drive the whole river, how could we improve on that?" "Well, I haven't got it down very fine, of course," Orde told him, "but in the first place we wouldn't need so many men. I could run the river on three hundred easy enough. That saves wages and grub on two hundred right there.
The next train out from Redding They'll be here by five in the morning at soonest. Hope it'll be later." "What will you do?" asked Newmark. "Take chances," replied Orde. "All you boys get to work. Zeke," he commanded one of the cookees, "go up road, and report if Morris comes back. I reckon this time we'll have to scatter if he comes after us. I hope we won't have to, though.
And for your benefit I'll tell you what you can easily substantiate; I forced him into this deal with me. I had this bribery case on him; and in addition his own affairs were all tied up." "I knew that," replied Orde. "What had the man to gain by telling you?" pursued Newmark. "Nothing at all. What had he to lose?
Even could he have known his partner's intentions, they would, on this account, have caused him no uneasiness, however angry they would have made him, or however determined to break the partnership. Even though Newmark destroyed utterly the firm's profits for the remaining year and a half the notes had to run, he could not thereby ruin Orde's chances.
"Why, no," explained Newmark; "getting in off those logs without getting caught." "Oh!" said the man indifferently, turning away. The going out of the jam drained the water from the lower floors of the mill; the upper stories and the grain were still safe. By evening the sluice-gate had been roughly provided with pole guides down which to slide to the bed of the river.
He took his seat at the desk, however, as calmly as ever. In three days the scandalised howls of bribery and corruption had given place in the newspapers to some other sensation. "Joe," said Orde to his partner, "how about all this talk? Is there really anything in it? You haven't gone in for that business, have you?" Newmark stretched his arms wearily. "Press bought up," he replied.
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