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With an exulting laugh and an obscene oath, Dupont pushed out the canoe, and they got away into the moonlight. No word was spoken for some distance, but Dupont kept giving grunts of satisfaction. "You got the ten t'ousan' each in cash or check, eh? The check or the money hein?" "I've got nothing," answered Lygon. Dupont dropped his paddle with a curse. "You got not'ing!
"Well, ce't'nly 'e did! Di'n' 'e gave dat money to Aurora De Grapion? one 'undred five t'ousan' dolla'? Jis' as if to say, 'Yeh's de money my h-uncle stole from you' 'usban'. Hah! w'en I will swear on a stack of Bible' as 'igh as yo' head, dat Agricole win dat 'abitation fair! If I see it? No, sir; I don't 'ave to see it! I'll swear to it! Hah!"
The man's tone was truculent insulting. Chloe flushed with anger. "I am not going to leave the river! Why should I leave the river?" Again the man laughed; there was no need for concealment now. "Me, Vermilion, I'm know de good plac' back in de hills. We go for stay dere till you pay de money." "Money? What money?" "Un hondre t'ousan' dollaire cash! You pay, Vermilion he tak' you back.
Jerry chuckled, Tom looked up from the stove and his smoke-blue eyes were twinkling. "I can't offer you more 'n a half-interest in the 'lay. That's all I own." "Is dis claim so reech lak people say?" 'Poleon inquired. "Dey're tellin' me you goin' mak' hondred t'ousan' dollar." "We're just breastin' out cross-cuttin' the streak, but looky."
At the Rink Rapids two native huskies, Teek and Koona, were added; and the celerity with which Buck broke them in took away Francois's breath. "Nevaire such a dog as dat Buck!" he cried. "No, nevaire! Heem worth one t'ousan' dollair, by Gar! Eh? Wot you say, Perrault?" And Perrault nodded. He was ahead of the record then, and gaining day by day.
"I charge you one t'ousan' dollar." Royal's jaw dropped. "The devil you say!" he exclaimed. "I don't want de job your scow's no good but I toss a coin wit' you. One t'ousan' dollar or free trip." "Nothing doing," snapped the ex-horseman. "Bien! Now I give you li'l AD-vice. Hol' hard to de right in lower end dis canon. Dere's beeg rock dere.
And the paper says to-morrow," cried Foster; "to take her away and marry her, no doubt. Peter, I tell you, she must be saved to-night! You and I must save her. If you won't aid me I will do it alone or die in the attempt." "Geo'ge, if you was to die a t'ousan' times dat wouldn't sabe her. You know de Kasba?" "Yes, yes go on!"
"I got 'bout t'irty dollar, but dat ain't mak' no differ. I go to workin' somewhere. Me, I'm good for anyt'ing." "That won't do," Rock smiled. "You don't understand." Laboriously he made more plain the mysteries of court procedure, whereupon his hearer expressed the frankest astonishment. "Sacre!" the latter exclaimed. "What for you say two, free T'OUSAN' dollar?
"Fi' t'ousan' tollaire!" he exclaimed, as the Justice fixed his bail, blending both his French and his German accent with strict impartiality, "V'y you not make him den, dwenty, a huntret t'ousandt!" A penniless prisoner in the Tombs is not an object of much consideration, as Tulitz discovered to his profound disgust.
"'For w'y shall I sell im, she say; 'I don' wear 'im before till to-night, an' I don' get no more dress lak' dis for t'ousan' dollar." Necia exclaimed excitedly. "For w'y you sell 'im? I say.
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