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Shayne agreed to make his payments in cash, so that Sansevero's name should not appear on the checks. But Christopher Shayne was more than skeptical about the duke's disinterestedness. "There is a rake-off for this one somewhere," he thought. He also thought that for once he had been mistaken in his judgment of character.
"'I wonder who gets this rake-off? remarks High Jack. "'Oh, says I, 'there's priests or deputy idols or a committee of disarrangements somewhere in the woods on the job. Wherever you find a god you'll find somebody waiting to take charge of the burnt offerings.
Guff believed that he had climbed to the Summit of Greatness when he appeared in his $42 Plume. Not so. One Year the State Militia was to have an Encampment and the Governor gave Col. James Henry Guff the Job of buying all the Beans, Fresh Beef, and other Supplies, because there promised to be a slight rake-off. Officially he was known as the Commissary-General.
"Henderson took it to court, and the decision was " "Oh, I know!" She tossed her head. "Your lawyers pulled you through for a rake-off, and the Henderson girls went to work. They live in a shabby little four-room house not far from here. I often see them at the wash-tub in the back yard. The old man hates you like a snake, and so do the girls. I can't blame them.
It's not only the sale though that's a rake-off of fifteen dollars to me but it's because it's YOU that's bought them. Gee!" gazing at her with a frank awe whose obvious sincerity held a queer touch of pathos. "What it must be to be YOU just YOU!" She did not laugh. She felt as if a hand had lightly touched her on her naked heart.
He had a pride of possession in this great buzzing throng, and in the debt they owed to him. They had no idea of it, of course; the fools, they thought that a meeting like this just grew out of nothing! They paid their ten cents twenty-five cents for reserved seats and imagined that covered everything, with perhaps even a rake-off for somebody!
Pete himself was a trifle suspicious of the conductor's solicitude as to their welfare, naturally unaware that that worthy official got a rake-off on all customers mentioning his name at the hotel and clothing-store. He gathered up his reports and tickets, snapped a rubber band round them, and dropped them in his capacious pocket. "We're eight minutes late," he remarked, glancing at his watch.
"Mike," he said, "what do ye think? Mebby 'twould do as well t' git a couple of sicond-hand dongolas an' have thim painted up. If they was in purty good shape no wan would know th' difference, an' 'twould make a bit more rake-off fer th' byes, mebby." "Th' same word was on th' ind o' me tongue, Dugan," said Toole, nodding his head slowly.
Sometimes we see a dozen shots come from it, all at once." "Olsen, I've an idea," returned Kurt, excitedly. "You fellows keep shooting attract their attention. I'll slip below, climb on top of a box-car, and get a rake-off at that bunch." "It's risky, Dorn," said Olsen, with hesitation. "But if you could get in a few tellin' shots start that gang on the run!"
She straightened herself instantly in the chair and he knew from the look in her eyes that the clash had come. "Do you want a bigger rake-off?" she sneered offensively. "Do you think I'm a petty thief?" She shrugged her shoulder cynically, but answered "It's legitimate." "Perhaps; but I don't choose to do it. I refuse to force your confessedly inexperienced and incompetent services upon my men.
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