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Updated: May 3, 2025
He's managed to keep hold of a little property that brings him in just enough to scrub along on, and he joins that hungry-eyed, trembly-fingered fringe of margin pikers that hangs around every hotel broker's branch in town, takin' a timid flier now and then, but tappin' the free lunch hard and reg'lar. You know the kind, seedy hasbeens, with their futures all behind 'em.
"I've got a chance," he went on fiercely, "to make millions, if I can only get title to those claims! And now, by grab, after all I've done for 'em, these pikers won't advance me a cent!" "How much would it cost?" she asked him quickly, "to finish the work and pay off the men?" "Two thousand dollars," he answered wearily. "But it might as well be a million."
That's all right maybe for pikers poor devils that have no spunk but not for 'yours truly. I'm a pusher, a climber, I am, and, what's more, I'm a man with ideas. No one can keep me down in the world. One of these days I'll be driving my own automobile and Fanny will be riding in it with me. It's no 'guff' I'm giving you. I'm the real 'goods." "You are a shipping clerk, I believe," said Mrs.
I don't suppose you've brought along any hair tonic or rolled gold watch-chains, or similar law-defying swindles that you could sell on the plaza to the pikers of the paretic populace, have you? "'No, says I, 'I left an elegant line of Patagonian diamond earrings and rainy-day sunbursts in my valise at Peavine.
Then, remember, I was something of a chemist. I took it up, originally, to get background material for one of my detective stories; it fascinated me, and I made it a hobby, and then a source of income. I'm thirty years ahead of any chemist in the world, now. You remember I. G. Farbenindustrie? Ten years from now, we'll make them look like pikers." His father looked at the yellow sheet.
"That's what we always calls a guy like you," she explained ingenuously, and added hopefully: "Well, you MUST a' seen our parade all the pikers see that IT don't cost nothin'." "I'm afraid I must also plead guilty to the charge of being a piker," Douglas admitted half-sheepishly, "for I did see the parade." "Well, I was the one on the white horse right behind the lion cage," she began excitedly.
He boasted of having "done up a lot of Pikers, up the creek," declaring his intention to "look up another lot of suckers" the following day. When our men thought that they had heard enough they returned to camp and reported. Recollections of the last time we had seen Mr. Tooly made the present occasion seem opportune.
When you're working the supporting members of the cast you maybe could stick in some subtles once in a while to salve them censors, but so far as Monte is concerned you leave 'em out!" "But but " "Don't but me any buts! Listen! Ain't I taken my paralyzed oath that this here picture should make all the other vamp pictures which ever were taken look like pikers? I have! Listen!
You know how we all love those pikers, anyway. These fellows who buy a little from you and a little from the other fellow in fact, a little from every good line that comes around just to keep the other merchants in the town from getting the line and not giving enough to any one man to justify him in taking care of the account or caring anything about it.
"Ah, flag it!" says I. "Do I look like I belonged in your class? Brush by, you three-dollar pikers, and give a salaried man a show!" With that I makes a quick rush at 2146 and gets through the door before they has time to make a howl. The letterin' on the ground glass was what got me.
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