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"A little further along we saw a reverend man named Pendergast, who had come to Soledad to build a church, standing under a cocoanut palm with his little black alpaca coat and green umbrella. "'Boys, boys! says he, through his blue spectacles, 'is it as bad as this? Are you so far reduced? "'We're reduced, says I, 'to very vulgar fractions.
It is hard to get cash quickly, and we must have cash as soon as we open in the morning, to pay the depositors who will come flocking to the doors. We must prepare for a run on the bank." "How do you know there will be a run?" asked the young inventor. "I received word this evening, just before I came here," replied Mr. Pendergast.
Say that he is to leave a certain package, about which he knows well enough, at the Pendergast Hotel, to be given to M. Kriskie. Say that he is, after that, to leave Chicago at once and is not to return for sixty days. "See?" He attempted another smile. "It is little that we ask of you; little that we ask of him virtually nothing." Mazie's heart was beating wildly. So that was the game?
There was considerable surprise on the part of the bank clerks when our hero, and his friends, walked in, carrying a heavy black bag. But they could only conjecture what was in the wind, for the party was immediately closeted with the president. Mr. Pendergast was so startled that he hardly knew what to say when Tom, aided by Mr. Sharp, told his story.
He also repeats the fat jokes of old Major Pendergast, the wit of the club, and which, though the general can hardly repeat them for laughing, always make Mr. Bracebridge look grave, he having a great antipathy to an indecent jest. In a word, the general is a complete instance of the declension in gay life, by which a young man of pleasure is apt to cool down into an obscene old gentleman.
I have an aunt who used to live here somewhere Aunt Jane Pendergast" The old lady sat suddenly erect in her chair. "My dear," she cried, "you don't mean to say that you're Jane Pendergast's niece! Now, that is queer! Why, this was her very house we bought it when the old gentleman died last year. But, come, we'll go inside. You'll want to see everything, of course!"
I led him to Reverend Pendergast's shack and called him out. "'Look at this, sir, says I 'look at this thing that was once a proud Britisher. You gave us two dollars and told us to celebrate the day. The star-spangled banner still waves. Hurrah for the stars and eagles! "'Dear me, says Pendergast, holding up his hands. 'Fighting on this day of all days! On Christmas day, when peace on
Isn't my son to receive the five thousand dollars for informing as to the identity of the thief isn't he?" demanded Mr. Foger, almost suffocating from his astonishment at the unexpected announcement. "Hardly," answered Mr. Pendergast dryly. "Your son's information happened to be very wrong. The tools he saw Tom have in the bag were airship tools, not burglar's.
"I apologize I apologize most humbly!" exclaimed Mr. Pendergast. "I also " "What about the reward?" went on Mr. Damon. "Bless my bank notes, I don't want any of it, for I have enough, but I think Tom and Mr. Sharp and the sheriff are entitled to it." "Certainly," said the president, "certainly. It will be paid at once. I will call a meeting of the directors.
The fellows blew him off upstairs. Kept it up till the steward shut 'em out. Awfully clever fellow, Minott. My Governor wanted me to do something in architecture, but it takes such a lot of time... Funny how a fellow will dress himself." Biffton's sleepy eyes were sweeping the Avenue. "Pendergast just passed wearing white spats A month too late for spats ought to know better.
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