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But I don't mind telling you I get my rake-off. I have to so I can live. The balance is only three thousand dollars, and if you could give me a check " "Excuse me," interrupted Viola, "but I have nothing to do with the business end of my father's affairs." "You're his daughter, aren't you?" "Yes." "And you'll get all his property?" Morocco Kate was getting vindictive now.
I heard some ugly gossip yesterday, and I wanted to find out if it had any justification. It seems Kendrick is after us. He's going to try and get us on a rebating charge. I saw six of your people ... and I'm reasonably sure that two out of that six have been promised a rake-off... Do you call that fair to me?" "That's a lie!" Brauer broke out, too emphatically. "I doubt it!"
I promised Locals an' Hammy a generous rake-off, an' we fixed to have a tol'able fair time as soon as I cashed in. Next mornin' I found a letter addressed to Mr. John Hawkins, Esq. Artie wasn't around, but Locals an' Hammy was, so I opened the letter an' read it. This here is the letter. It's one o' my greatest treasures.
As the three horses and their riders came on to the course he pulled out a cheap stop-watch Langdon had equipped him with for his touting, and started and stopped it several times. "You'll pay fer their feed, you damn ole skinflint," he was apostrophizing Porter, "an' I'll be next the best they can do, an' stan' in on the rake-off. Gee!
"By Jupe, thet's great!" cried Peggy admiringly. "Skim, ye're a wonder!" "Ma allus said I were good fer somethin', but she couldn't tell what." "It's story-writin'," declared Peggy "Say, Skim, I put ye onter this deal; don't I git a rake-off on thet fifty dollars?" "Not a cent!" said Skim indignantly. "Ye didn't tell me to write a story; I said myself as I could do it.
If such honours are freely sold in a country like England, there could be no possible objection to the King of Megalia taking a reasonable price for creating a Grand Duchess, even, perhaps, a princess. Donovan's next words made Gorman determine to try what he could do. "There'll be a rake-off from the purchase price," said Donovan, "for the man who arranges the sale.
"But when the Republicans ran things, my boss paid his little rake-off just the same, you can bet. But you needn't tell that to the perfessor." "I won't," said the boy. "What you goin' to do now?" asked the other. "I don't know. I guess I'll have to get something to eat first." "You'll find the cheapest way is to buy a glass of beer and then feed over there." "No," said Samuel, startled.
There isn't a big interest in this State ore-shippers, power people, irrigation companies, or any of 'em that ain't getting a rake-off. I guess you are stringing me; I guess you know all this a good deal better than I do. If you don't, I can tell you that it's a fact; not a 'has-been', but an 'is'! Ask Gantry; he'll tell you, if he tells the truth.
He made his own arrangements with the journals that took his stuff, and the difference between the price he had to pay and the dollar a line he got from the insurance company was to be his private rake-off. He succeeded in securing the publication of six dispatches of about two hundred and fifty words, in such well-known newspapers as the St.
"Chief of Police Cooley is in reality chief collector. The police graft is one of the richest Stone has. The rake-off from saloons that are supposed to close at one and from crooked gambling joints and illegal resorts of various kinds, amounts, I suppose, to not less than ten to fifteen thousand dollars a week.
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