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"Would it be all right to telephone down to the office, or do you think it would be better to ring?" "Perhaps," said his wife, "it would be better to look out into the hall and see if there isn't someone round that would tell them." This was the kind of problem with which Tomlinson and his wife, in their thousand-dollar suite in the Grand Palaver, grappled all day.
He's been with us only a year." Late that afternoon, after Cappy had made the rounds of his office, distributing his checks and wishing all hands the merriest of Christmases, he paused at last at Mr. Skinner's desk and laid a thousand-dollar check thereon. "Not a peep out of you, Skinner not a peep!" he cautioned his general manager. "No thanks due me.
But the autos were making fast time, and soon the machines had gone as far on the way as they could be used. "Now we'll have to get out and strike across country, through the woods," Prescott called. So far Dick had resolutely tried to keep out of his mind any thought of that thousand-dollar reward.
No one thing in particular; just the general local colour of a thousand-dollar bender. "'Charming, isn't it? she sneered. "'I don't savvy the burro. There's something phony about it. I can explain the other two, but this one . Then it come to me in a flash. The man's face was perfect, but he wore knickerbockers!
Because a week ago Max eats some stuss in Bridgetown, y'understand, which he is sick in bed for three days. And while he is laid up yet Sammet Brothers cops out a thousand-dollar order on him." "Ai gewoldt!" Morris cried, with ready sympathy. "You don't tell me?" "And now that poor feller walks the streets looking for a job; and a fine show he's got it, an old man like him."
"Well," he said, "I might as well look over those letters may be a thousand-dollar check amongst them." Then, stepping into his room, he picked up the package, examined it curiously, and cut the cords with his knife.
Thus Whiskey Mason easily found a victim, and within three days was rich once more with half of the thousand-dollar fine that the magistrate imposed. He felt that all the country suddenly was his lawful prey. He could not long remain in Petersburg, where he was soon well known and shunned. He had some trouble, too, for threats against his life began to reach him more and more.
"Well," said the American, closing his eyes for the better enjoyment of the analysis, and giving a long, slow pull at his cigar, "there might have been any one of several things. My idea is that he was a defaulter, and the thousand-dollar bills there were forty or fifty of them, Oiseau says were part of the money he got away with.
You're a regular pie-check for me. Come around any time." She withdrew to a dark corner and waited interminably till her messenger appeared at the head of the gallery stairs and beckoned to her. As she drew near he said, "I told him there was a thousand-dollar filly flaggin' him from the stage door, but he's got a grouch an' won't stir. He's in number seven."
"Bea is like all her sort," he warned Trudy when the point of Beatrice's having to invite the Vondeplosshes for dinner was close at hand; "she is crazy about herself and her money. She would cheat for ten cents and then turn right round and buy a thousand-dollar dress without questioning the price." Which was true.
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