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Feel as if you'd been run through a sausage-grinder?" he asked cheerily. The man smiled faintly. "I'm all right, boss. The boys tell me you went back and saved me." "Sho! I just grabbed you and slung you in the cage. No trick at all, Tom. Now, don't you worry, boy. Just lie there in the hospital and rest easy. We're settling the bill, and there's a hundred plunks waiting you when you get well."
"Dere's a loidy here," continued Spike, addressing the chest of drawers, "dat's got a necklace of jools what's wort' a hundred t'ousand plunks. Honest, boss. A hundred t'ousand plunks. Saunders told me dat de old gazebo dat hands out de long woids. I says to him, 'Gee! an' he says, 'Surest t'ing youse know. A hundred t'ousand plunks!" "So I understand," said Jimmy.
He couldn't of hardly rid over it even once real thorough before he plunks down his money, gets him a proper title, an' hikes off to the war, leavin' Joe Bloss in charge." He paused, fished in his pocket, and, producing a plug, carefully bit off one corner. Stratton watched him impatiently, a faint flush staining his clear, curiously white skin. "Well?" he prodded presently. "What happened then?
"Shall I rubber around, an' find out where is dey kept, boss?" "Spike," said Jimmy, "ask me no more. All this is in direct contravention of our treaty respecting keeping your fingers off the spoons. You pain me. Desist." "Sorry, boss. But dey'll be willy-wonders, dem jools. A hundred t'ousand plunks. Dat's goin' some, ain't it? What's dat dis side?" "Twenty thousand pounds."
But soon they went elsewhere to blow in their plunks, for Griggins turned out such a foolish old hunks; while others were rustling for shilling and pound, old Griggins the grocer kept fooling around.
A further reward of $1000 will be paid for the recovery of the bullion stolen. This was what she read, and her eye was running over it a second time when she heard the jingle of a spur approaching. "We're red-hot after them, you see, Miss Lee," a mocking voice drawled. "If you want to round up a thousand plunks, all you've got to do is to tell me who Mr. Hold-up is."
"Well, we got ready to start, and the two parties coughed up the thousand plunks that is, the young 'un handed it over to Sam when the old 'un told him to. Sam took three hundred and the rest of us two hundred a piece. When they were lookin' from the winder to see that nobody on the streets was watchin' the house, I asked Sam if he knowed either of them by name.
And when I told 'em about Pete being kept in, they both looks awful solemn and plunks down on the steps to wait for him. Pa, he takes one'r Ma's hands and tells her to cheer up, and Ma says she can't, she feels gloomy, and the house was awful lonesome with both the boys away. So, just when I think there's going to be a crying match, out comes Pete with his face a shining.
"Open up that barrel of plunks you've got stored away in your cellar," exhorted another counsellor. "A nice, white slave that's what you're needing in your business," advised a third. But Joe Bardi kept his eyes on the ground and said nothing. "Gone," said the young man in evening clothes. Indiman took four fifty-dollar bills from his wallet and handed them to the young man.
Wrenn was diffidently sitting in the basement. "Yes," dryly, "Ah noticed you was out late, Mist' Wrenn." "You see, Mrs. Zapp, I uh my father left me some land, and it's been sold for about one thousand plunks." " Ah'm awful' glad, Mist' Wrenn," she said, funereally. "Maybe you'd like to take that hall room beside yours now. The two rooms'd make a nice apartment."
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