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Updated: June 15, 2025
"What news, Don Miguel?" Pablo ventured presently. "We will win, Pablo." "Valgame dios! I will wager my fortune on Panchito. Here it is, Don Miguel one hundred and eighty dollars. I know not the ways of these Gringo races, but if the stakeholder be an honest man and known personally to you, I will be your debtor forever if you will graciously consent to attend to this detail for me."
But Sherman grabbed him by the waist and held him as you would a baby, and kept on talking all the time, telling him not to have any fuss, that he didn't want to see any trouble, etc. Sherman Thurston was the best stakeholder in America. He was death to coat-tail pullers. He had a way of acting as if he was in a terrible passion, and coming down on their feet with a stamp that made them lie quiet.
The game progressed, and before many deals another challenge was passed and accepted between the two. This time it was the salesman who profited to the extent of twenty-five dollars which he received from the stakeholder with the remark that he would bet his whole roll on a jack full any old day. The elderly gentleman smoked in silence and amused himself by mentally cataloguing the players.
He drew out his "roll" and slapped five tens upon the bar. The three or four young fellows who were thus "taken" more slowly produced their stake. The bartender, ex-officio stakeholder, took the money, laboriously wrapped it, recorded the bet with an inch-long pencil and stuffed the whole into a corner of the cash register.
He certainly did not have the stakes with him then; but they did not stop to argue the matter, for others, jealous that so important a personage as the local constable, who was also the stakeholder in the great match, should be absent from the rejoicing over the Birralong victory, had already started for the constable's cottage.
The bet is made, gentlemen. I ah propose that we wing the bell foh the pwopwietah and, shahl we say, the clahk, to act as judge and stakeholdeh." "That will be satisfactory," said Loring. "Allow me, in turn, to make a suggestion, Mr. Wyatt. Put the money in your billbook, hand it to the stakeholder, and let him give it, unopened, to the winner. Of course, you will first take out your other money.
"Joe, I'll make a check in your favor for fifty thousand dollars and you make one in my favor for the same amount. We will then deposit both checks with the secretary of the club, who will act as stakeholder " "'Nuff said, Alden P. Ricks. I accept the dare. Sonny, if you're a worse sailor-man than you appear to be, you're liable to cost your father a sizable wad.
He put the gun back in the holster, dug up a wallet, and produced a gold piece for the stakeholder. "You'd better clean your gun, young man," he said. "It must be pretty foul by now." Jim followed this advice, taking ten minutes for the operation. Meantime the Californian replaced the targets with new ones old tin dinner plates this time and voiced a philosophical regret over his recent defeat.
"There you are," he said to the stakeholder. Lew Flapp had not expected this, but he quickly covered the one dollar with a five, feeling sure he was going to win. "You'll never see your two dollars again, Powell," he said. "Perhaps you'll never see your six again," answered Songbird, and moved away to watch the race from another point along the island shore.
Den Brer Rabbit say he got a fifty-dollar bill w'at say dat he kin leave Brer Tarrypin so fur behime, dat he could sow barley ez he went long en hit 'ud be ripe nuff fer ter cut by de time Brer Tarrypin pass dat way. "Enny how dey make de bet en put up de money, en old Brer Tukkey Buzzard, he wuz summonzd fer ter be de jedge, en de stakeholder; en 'twan't long 'fo' all de 'rangements wuz made.
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