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The man, who had glanced up at them, smiled at that and said: "And, if I don't have luck, I'm broke, anyhow, so fifty or sixty plunks won't make much difference. You going to be a miner, youngster?" "Not this trip," said Ted, with a smile. "Say, I'd like to know how you get the gold out with that." "At first we used to put a blanket in the rocker, and wash the pay dirt on that.
Perhaps, now that he had actually handled the jewels, he would find it impossible to give them up. To Spike, a diamond necklace of cunning workmanship was merely the equivalent of so many "plunks"; but he knew that there were men, otherwise sane, who valued a jewel for its own sake. "It's a boid of a necklace, boss," he murmured, encouragingly.
"Oh, what deh hell," said the friend. "What's deh use! Yeh'll git pulled in! Everybody 'ill be onto it! An' ten plunks! Gee!" Jimmie was determined. "He t'inks he kin scrap, but he'll fin' out diff'ent." "Gee," remonstrated the friend. "What deh hell?" On a corner a glass-fronted building shed a yellow glare upon the pavements.
"I'm always getting stuck anyhow. Seven plunks is getting off easy." "You will never regret it," murmured Ikey. "Where is that paper, Hashmi? Now don't you fellows let anyone else in on this game until I give the word. I'm taking care of my friends first, then the rest of the bunch. Friends first, say I." "Yes, if you're going to stick anybody, stick your friends first," laughed Dunk.
"How bad will it hurt him?" The man paused a moment and then added: "Well, I don't mind sayin' dat it'll break his wrist. Yer can do it de first crack arter I shows yer how, but it'll cost twenty-five plunks ter learn der trick." After a few moments of hesitation Browning drew forth his pocketbook and counted out twenty-five dollars. Buster Kelley was a character.
I tell you, Bunch, we can't lose if we handle this cinch right, and I've got it all framed up. It's good for a thousand plunks apiece every week, so cut out the yesterday gag and think of a fat to-morrow." "I'd like to see this Petroskinski," said Bunch. "I'll have him take luncheon with us to-morrow at the Hotel Astor twelve thirty. Are you for me to the finish, Bunch?"
'Why don't you and Pete sign the pledge right here and now? how's that, friend? I asks the minister. "'Why, ah! says he. 'Ah! It doesn't seem quite the proper place "'What's the matter with this place? says Jim. He took a great pride in his saloon. He had glass mirrors up that cost him a hundred plunks apiece.
"But say, dere's a lot of our money on ye I got two plunks meself, 'n' say, you just gotter fight anyway. Bud says so " "I can't help what Bud says; I ain't comin'." "Not comin'!" exclaimed Larry, his eyes rounder than ever. "No!"
While they were still a mile from the ranch house the pinto and its rider could be seen loping toward them. "Ride forward, Denver, and tell Miss Helen we're coming. Better have her get everything fixed to doctor him soon as we get there. Give him the best show in the world, and he'll still be sailing awful close to the divide. I'll bet a hundred plunks he'll cash in, anyway."
"Yes, dat's right. A hundred t'ousand plunks dey set him back. Dey're de limit, ain't dey? Say, won't youse really ?" "Spike! I'm surprised at you! Do you know, you're getting a regular Mephistopheles, Spike? Suppose I hadn't an iron will, what would happen? You really must select your subjects of conversation more carefully. You're bad company for the likes of me." Spike shuffled despondently.
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