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"I gave you fellows a twenty-dollar-bill a few days ago," he said, "in addition to that, you've been provided with clothes and lodging. What more do you want?" "We've got to have some more coin, that's flat," announced Slim decidedly; "come on, fork over, guv'ner. You've gone too far into this now to pull out." Mortlake's florid face went white.
Making a resolve to get rid of them as speedily as possible, he dived into his breast pocket and drew from it a roll of bills that made Slim's and Joey's eyes stick out of their heads. He peeled off a twenty-dollar-bill, and flung it with no good grace down upon the table. "There," he said, "that's the last you'll get till the trick is done." "Thankee, guv'ner; I knowed you'd see sense.
"And the best of it is," he chuckled, while Slim inspected the bill carefully, "the best of it is, that I wasn't conformin' to the exact truth when I told Mortlake that we'd spent all the other coin. I've got the best part of it left." "Good," grunted Slim, turning the twenty-dollar-bill over and examining the reverse side, "that being the case hullo!" "What's up?" asked Joey.
A sudden thought struck Peggy, and she turned to the farmer. "Did any of those bills have an identifying mark on it?" she asked. The farmer shook his head. But Mrs. Galloway had a better memory. "Why, yes, Ike," she exclaimed; "that twenty-dollar-bill you got frum Si. Giddens fer ther Baldwins. I re'klect thet it hed a big round O in red ink marked on ther back uv it.
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