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His friend was concerned with several others in one of the biggest attacks that had ever been made upon what one might describe in general terms as the thousand-dollar light automobile market. What they said practically was this: This market is a jig-saw puzzle waiting to be put together and made one. We are going to do it. But that was easier to figure out than to do.
The terms that I have to offer are simply this: you can do everything you want, go anywhere you choose, if you will only leave this place. I have a hundred thousand-dollar draft on the United States Treasury in my pocket at your immediate disposal." "But what's to become of me?" asked Chitterlings. "Your case has already been under advisement.
When I went to the hotel I saw a light in Andy's room, and I opened the door and walked in. "There sat Andy and the faro dealer at a table dividing a two-foot high stack of currency in thousand-dollar packages. "'Correct, says Andy. 'Thirty-one thousand apiece. Come in, Jeff, says he.
'I must decide soon, he thought, when a voice not far from him caught his ear, and glancing from under his hat, he saw Peterkin coming in, portly and pompous, and with him a dapper little man, who, in the days of the 'Liza Ann, had been a driver for the boat, but who now, like his former employer, was a millionaire, and wore a thousand-dollar diamond ring.
The spelling is atrocious. Here it is: "Mr. Peter Winn, SIR: I send you respectfully by express a pigeon worth good money. She's a loo-loo " "What is a loo-loo?" Peter Winn interrupted. The secretary tittered. "I'm sure I don't know, except that it must be a superlative of some sort. The letter continues: "Please freight it with a couple of thousand-dollar bills and let it go.
And then at the climax of his speech, as he is waving his violin in the air, the Herr Prof. von Arne ventures to put in a word; and the boy whirls upon him, and brings down the three thousand-dollar treasure upon the eminent psychiatrist's head! The third act, which was the hardest of all to write, was to take place in a garret.
"The amount was two hundred thousand dollars cash." He got his effect. All four of his listeners gasped in amazement. "Even Moustafa didn't know the exact amount," Rick thought. "The money was in thousand-dollar bills. I have the serial numbers." Rick spoke up. "But, Ben, numbered bills are like a flag! No one can spend them without getting caught."
The business which took him there had been more than satisfactorily arranged. He had collected a thousand-dollar debt he never expected to get, and had been everywhere treated with the utmost deference and consideration, as a man whose worth was known and appreciated.
If the former, he may expect to be ushered into spacious and luxuriously-furnished parlors, where, seated in comfortably-padded rocking-chairs, and contemplating marble tables, on which gorgeously- bound volumes are artistically arranged; thousand-dollar piano-fortes, and mirrors capable of abashing a modest man to utter speechlessness, he will tarry the advent of stately dames, whose dresses rustle as with conscious opulence.
'S truth, Jimmy, I felt real mad with him because he didn't have it in thousand-dollar bills, and hand it to me on a silver waiter. Now, we've got to wait till he goes to the bank and gets the money for us." They talked it over for two hours, and then Dunn said; "Bring him to No. Broadway, at four o'clock to-morrow afternoon." In due time Kelley called at the Hotel Espanol for the General.
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