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I'll bet you a thousand dollars I can get your permit for you!" The two men looked steadily into each other's eyes. At last Welton drew a deep sigh. "I'll go you," said he. Baker laughed gleefully. "It's a cinch," said he. "Now, honest, don't you think so? Do you give up? Will you give me a check now?" "I'll give you a check, and you can hunt up a good stakeholder," said Welton.
I've known him a lifetime and what he says goes with me. We'll put up this bunch of stuff with a stakeholder for the term of a year, and if the gold isn't there and if the map showing the route to it isn't correct and if every word I've said about it isn't precisely the truth, you take down my bonds and keep them. "Old Nute got up and walked about the room. I knew what he was thinking.
"No good," remarked his opponent blandly. "Mine's hearts all in a row, with the jack at the top." One by one he laid them down a straight flush. South Bend stared incredulously at the cards. "All right, Mr. Stakeholder," laughed the salesman, "pass over the kale. Just slip out a five for your trouble." "Just a minute." The voice of the stakeholder was quiet and his lips smiled.
When the betting ended, every watch and six-shooter in the outfit was in the hands of the stakeholder, and had it not been for Flood our saddles would have been in the same hands. It was to be a three hundred yard race, with an ask and answer start between the riders.
Then we both signed them, Hernan Pereira not very willingly, I thought; and if my recovery was sufficiently rapid, the date was fixed for that day week. In case of any disagreement, the Heer Retief, who was staying at Maraisfontein, or in its neighbourhood, for a while, was appointed referee and stakeholder.
Retook the cash from the grinning stakeholder, counted out Loring's half and pushed it over to that much discomfited gentleman. "I don't want to rob you!" he quoted mockingly. "But if I had time I'd have kept you on the anxious seat a while. There's your jack of hearts, under your feet!" "Why, you fat, old swindler!
The articles of agreement are signed, the money, five thousand a side, is in the hands of the stakeholder one Mike Finnegan, a friend of Flynn's, who keeps a saloon upon the Bowery." "Preposterous! It hasn't come out, the newspapers " "They're full enough of it as it is.
He passed a handful of bills to the stakeholder and glared defiantly at the newspaper person who was in the act of returning a bill-fold to his pocket. "Why, that is all I've got!" he gasped, "and it's expense-money!" "Well, of course," the other replied, "if you don't care to see my hand, and I don't mind telling you it's more than a middling good one "
The editor of a well-known sporting paper acted as stakeholder, and unprejudiced umpires were to decide as to what actually was seen through the telescope. It need scarcely be said that the accepted theory held its own, and that Mr. Hampden lost his money. He scarcely bore the loss with so good a grace as was to have been expected from a philosopher merely desirous of ascertaining the truth.
Thus is ended your long and furious quarrel; I, whom you appointed your judge and stakeholder, at last give my verdict: you both have triumphed. I return your stakes; let each man keep his own, and do you both sign the treaty.” At the summons of the old man the huntsmen turned beaming faces on each other and joined their long parted right hands. Then the Notary spoke:—
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