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Afterward he took the other fellows down to the gymnasium, where Biff Bates drew him to one side. "Look here, old pal!" said Bates. "I saw you real chummy with T. W. Tight-Wad Trimmer to-night." "Yes?" admitted Bobby interrogatively. "Well, you know I don't go around with my hammer out, but I want to put you wise to this mut.
I tried to sell him a few shares of stock in the suitcase, so he'll take an interest in the game; but he's too much the tight-wad to buy." "Oh, no," deprecated Vandeman. "Just no gambler; hate to take a chance." He ran his fingers through his hair, tossing it up with a gesture I had noticed when he came back from the dance at Tait's. "All right apology accepted," Worth nodded. "Anyway, you didn't.
That blow seems to discourage Lester for a week or so, since which he has run true to form. He'll run around with lady typists, or girls from the cloak department, or most anything that wears skirts, until they discover what a tight-wad he is and give him the shunt.
I can't imagine her moping. I hope Amos Vick isn't too close-fisted to consult a doctor. He's an awful tight-wad believe me." "Doctor can't seem to find anything really the matter ter with her, so old Cale Brown told me," said Mr. Pollock. "But don't you think it's fine of young Cale to join the navy, Court? Maybe your tales about the war put it into his head."
You can't help thinking about the stuff you blew so reckless when you were flush the night you got out and spent a hundred, and say, if you only had it now! You take a paralyzed oath on your mother that if you ever get right again you'll 'salt your stuff' and be a 'tight-wad' and then you remember you 're broke again.
"Of a certainty, yes!" chimed in Sid. "Not once have you treated the crowd on the strength of your increases in salary." "No," returned Joe slowly, "I haven't, that's a fact. And now I want to say one thing. I know you fellows have been calling me a 'tight-wad' and all that. I stood for it because "
He had run a race with three other applicants for the privilege of escorting her and being victor it behooved him to prove he appreciated his gains. He didn't want Elsie to think he was a tight-wad, or worse still suspect him of being broke.
"Well, what did you find out about this job?" inquired a member of the office force who had entered from a communicating room, and the chief wrinkled his brow a little as he studied his perfecto. "It's a dirty business, Schenk," he replied crisply. "It's the kind of thing that gives knockers a license to put detectives in the same class as blackmailers and the old Whey-face himself is a tight-wad.
Nell had gone out with him only once, and that was upon the savings of six months, and Peter had not been able to conceal the effort it cost him to spend it all. So he had been set down as a "tight-wad," and had made no headway. Nell had disappeared, along with everybody else when the police raided the Temple.
You come out o' this prison, get an edication, an' on the ninth o' next June you show up at number forty-nine, Rue de Champaign, Paris, at two fifteen P. M. sharp. Here's a million francs to pay expenses. Don't be a tight-wad the's plenty more." A franc is worth five dollars, but he didn't give a durn for 'em. That was HIS style.
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