United States or Hong Kong ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
You mus' not worry, my frand. I give you ten sousand dollar which you can send back should you be so foolish." But Gilbert was obdurate. "I can pay it back. The oil " "I am sorry. Zere is no oil," the bandit informed him. This was the consummating blow to the young man. "But you said " "I tell you one damn big lie," Lopez laughed. "But 'as she not a million dollar from ze 'usband which I kill?"
You keep both these fellers here and lend us ten thousand dollars, and we'll give you a million!" "A million!" said Lopez, his eyes big. "The first million we make out of the oil that's here!" "Uncle Henry proposed. And, serious as things were getting to be, a smile went around the group. "I should lend you ten sousand dollar?" the bandit asked. "Absolutely! Will you?"
Two 'ondred sousand soldier, mebbe! But two 'ondred sousand dollar! Pah!" and he made a gesture of disgust, and crushed the paper in his hand and let it fall on the floor under the table. "Then what's the idea of this auction in the first place?" Pell asked, mad through and through that they had been tricked by this Mexican fool. Lopez leaned back on the table.
"There's no other way, is there?" "Sree sousand miles?" "Rather less, isn't it?" "Ach! zis knocks me into a vat you call it? into a billycock." He turned to Herr Schwankmacher, who had just refilled his pipe, and repeated to him the astounding announcement. The German scoffed.
Lopez smiled sardonically, "Twenty sousand for what is worth millions?" "But I don't know that there's oil here," Pell argued. Lopez laughed. "No?" Then, to Hardy, "You? You don't know, eizer, I s'pose?" "I thought there might be that's all." The bandit gave a hearty laugh. "Oh!" he exclaimed, almost consumed with mirth. "I see I do business wiz business men wise business men. Bueno!
Uncle Henry had the temerity to say. "I do not lend," was the hard response. "I take." And he turned away. "But if you'll " the old man pleaded. "Your proposition not interests me," Lopez said. Uncle Henry wheeled over to the staircase. The bandit turned to Pell. "You offer me twenty sousand? Zat is so?" he said. "Right," Pell replied.
"I bid one hundred thousand dollars," Pell quickly cried. "I'll take it to the courts," Hardy contended. "Take what to the courts?" Pell wanted to know. "I was detained by force," Hardy said. "As long as I get there by eight, what difference does that make?" Pell asked. But Lopez broke in: "One hundred sousand I am offer!" They mustn't shillyshally this way. He wanted to keep things going.
"Zis, if I may speak so, 'as been a lucky day for me!" Pell turned to both Hardy and Lopez, and addressed them: "Bluffing, were you?" Lopez was quick to retort: "And was you bluffing when you bidded ze two 'ondred sousand dollars?" Hardy was agitated. "I'm afraid we were a bit hasty," he tried to explain things away. This tickled Uncle Henry's bump of humor. He chuckled, and cried, "Ho, ho!
But what's un-dred sousand to him?" He said it drowsily, and his hands unconsciously fell. He was asleep in his chair. He sat there sleeping until the gray of morning. Kitty Dunham, coming into the room ready-dressed for a journey, found him there. She was frightened; for he looked as if he were dead. Going up to him she shook him, and he awoke heavily.
But zen, presently, one of those Brazilian ladies said it was a shame to put all the blame on dear Mr. Percivail, who is such a gentleman and so splendid and all zat, and zen then zat Mrs. Block jump up and say that if it was not for Mr. Percivail her husband would have been killed last week when he fell off of the landing into ten sousand feet of water.
Word Of The Day