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Updated: May 8, 2025
Didn't I tell you that after a few days this business deal business, get that? will be over. Then I'm going to hold down any old job your heart desires. But first I'm going to have money in my pockets! That's the only way to make this old world sit up and take notice. Spondulicks! Then I'm going to carry you off and get spliced. See? Real money. Diamonds.
"That it's a job for silence, secrecy, and " "Spondulicks," said Dicky with a laugh, as the other hesitated for a word. "Just so," said the man. "And what else?" I continued, pressing him firmly. "Well," he admitted hoarsely, "I learned as how there was to be a change of place to-night, and I might be needed." I looked at him inquiringly.
"What would you have done if they'd socked it to you?" was the answer Longley made. "I never thought I'd lay in a bush to stick up a train," remarked Merwin; "but a call loan's different. A call's a call with me. We've got twelve hours yet, Bill, before this spy jumps onto you. We've got to raise them spondulicks somehow. Maybe we can Great Sam Houston! do you hear that?"
Fritz had been fuming with terror and excitement until this sack was reached. He now remembered Lena's letter. He addressed the leader of the band, asking that that particular missive be spared. "Much obliged, Dutch," he said to the disturbed carrier. "I guess that's the letter we want. Got spondulicks in it, ain't it? Here she is. Make a light, boys." Hondo found and tore open the letter to Mrs.
"What would you have done if they'd socked it to you?" was the answer Longley made. "I never thought I'd lay in a bush to stick up a train," remarked Merwin; "but a call loan's different. A call's a call with me. We've got twelve hours yet, Bill, before this spy jumps onto you. We've got to raise them spondulicks somehow. Maybe we can Great Sam Houston! do you hear that?"
"Oh, by the way," said Dicky suddenly, before a suitable reply had come to me; "how about the scads spondulicks you know? Yesterday was pay- day, but you didn't show up." I don't know whether my jaw dropped or not. My spirits certainly did. "By Jove, Dicky!" I exclaimed, catching my breath. "It slipped my mind, clean. I haven't got at our ahem banker, either."
The reference to the "jack-rabbit line" could mean nothing else than the mule-back system of transport that prevailed between Coralio and the capital. The hint that the "boodle" was "six figures short" made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear. Also it was convincingly true that the ingoing party its way now made a pacific one would need the "spondulicks."
"I ain't deservin' o' this nohow," and he commenced to snivel a little. Mr. Gibney forgot that he was playing a hypocrite's part, and his generous nature overcame him. "Dog my cats," he blustered, "what's the use givin' him the vessel if we don't give him some spondulicks to outfit her with grub an' supplies? Poor devil! I bet he ain't got a cent to bless himself with.
I ain't as rich as old Jim Hornback, and I can't be so blame' generous and good to Tom, Dick, and Harry as what he is, and slam around money the way he does; but I've told him a many a time 't I wouldn't trade places with him; for, says I, a sailor's life's the life for me, and I'm derned if I'D live two mile out o' town, where there ain't nothing ever goin' on, not for all his spondulicks and as much more on top of it.
"Place yer spondulicks on de little ball. Wich is de next lucky one to win our money? Chent bets four sixty-five he seen de little ball go under de middle shell. Up she comes! Dis time we wins; Plattville can't win every time. Who's de next chent?" Fentriss edged slowly out of the circle, abashed, and with rapidly whitening cheeks.
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