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We were playing monte, and I had beat a man out of twenty- six twenty-dollar gold pieces. When we came to settle up there was one gold piece missing, so I said, "Boys, there is one gold piece short." Alexander proposed a search, and Carroll said, "I have not got a cent, and that is why I wanted to cap, in order to pay my passage."
I happen to remember four twenty-dollar United States notes, and a roll of small bills, perhaps something over a hundred dollars." "Is that the pocket-book?" asked David Thomas, slowly pulling the loved and lost out of his trousers pocket. "It is." "You'd be willing to take your oath on it?" "I should be delighted to." "Well, I guess there ain't so much money in it.
Now, the lawyer had often dreamed of fifties, hundreds, and even of thousands; but fortune had been so fickle with him, that he had never been in possession of bank-notes higher than five or ten dollars, except one of the glorious Cairo Bank twenty-dollar notes, which his father presented to him in Baltimore, when he advised him most paternally to try his luck in the West.
I spoil your pig-pen, but your pig-pen spoil my suit and your sow scare me oud of TWO years' growth." "Now, don't get funny. Fork over fifty dollars or you go to the constable." Old Schmidt's face was a study. Finally, however, he produced a fat wallet, and peeling off two twenty-dollar bills and a ten, he handed them over with a sigh.
The little consul was deathly pale, and there was something fierce and authoritative in his look. "Come out of here," he said abruptly, "I want to talk to you!" The Chinaman followed him aft. He had a pretty good idea of what was coming. That was why he was sewn up with two hundred dollars in hard cash, together with a twenty-dollar bill under his left heel.
When her old father, Captain Dennett, was dying, he drew a wallet from under his pillow, and handed her a twenty-dollar bill to get something to remember him by.
I also learned that in Brooklyn there lived quite a large colony in comfortable homes which they owned; but at no point did my life come in contact with theirs. In my gambling experiences I passed through all the states and conditions that a gambler is heir to. Some days found me able to peel ten and twenty-dollar bills from a roll, and others found me clad in a linen duster and carpet slippers.
"That chap was Dobbs, a Government specialist in counterfeiters, and that twenty-dollar piece had almost the true ring, but not quite. The man who turned it out showed me the difference only yesterday. Perky? Certainly! He said Eliphalet Congdon had taken a bagful to pass on the unwary. The old boy had changed a lot of them in New England and the Government is not ignoring the matter.
He's been pulling that ever since they fired me from the academy for lighting a cigarette with a twenty-dollar bill." "Charley!" "Next to taking it with him, he'll leave it to me before he'll see a penny go out of the family. I've seen his will, hon." "Charley, you you got so much good in you. The way you sent that wooden leg out to poor old lady Guthrie.
I happen to remember four twenty-dollar United States notes, and a roll of small bills, perhaps something over a hundred dollars." "Is that the pocket-book?" asked David Thomas, slowly pulling the loved and lost out of his trousers pocket. "It is." "You'd be willing to take your oath on it?" "I should be delighted to." "Well, I guess there ain't so much money in it.
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