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It was my old twenty-dollar case over again; and as I never forget anything, I had all the authorities at my fingers' ends. The court knew that I had no time to prepare, and were astonished at the range of my acquirements. So you see, I was handsomely repaid both in fame and money for that journey to Boston; and the moral is that good work is rewarded in the end."
The young woman riffled through the packet and drove a hand into the jingling bag. Briskly she counted down before her the following items in currency and specie: Four one-hundred-dollar bills, six fifty-dollar bills, twelve twenty-dollar bills, five ten-dollar bills, one five-dollar bill, four one-dollar bills, one fifty-cent piece, one quarter, two dimes and one nickel.
When he paid for his ticket he gave me a twenty-dollar gold piece, and his hand shook so, he dropped another piece of the same value on the floor. His appearance was so remarkable I noticed him particularly. He was a man about my age, very tall and finely made, but one half of his face was black, or rather very dark blue, and he wore a handkerchief bandage-fashion across it.
"I'd cheerfully given more, Arty, to beat that corporation. A twenty-dollar bill or so, you know! But money is tight. I've scraped and scraped for years to start my bank at Ross Valley, and every dollar wasted retards the village. You boys have cost me a sight of money.
And I tell YOU, when a man's got to live on seventy-five a month, a thing that'll take all the strength and energy out of a twenty-dollar bill sorter gets him down on the mat." Like old Mrs. Welden's, his roughly sketched picture was a graphic one. "'Tain't the working that bothers most of us. We were born to that, and most of us would feel like deadbeats if we were doing nothing.
"I don't think we shall find Johnson," I murmured. Nor did we. The cashier testified to receiving the roll of notes, but not the letter of introduction. We hunted high and low for Johnson; but he was not. "How did he get away without money?" he asked. "He had money. I stuck a twenty-dollar bill into his coat pocket."
They both declined, when Forrest, taking out his purse, handed a twenty-dollar gold piece to the driver with an oath. He then asked the other man what he owed him, but the latter very haughtily declined any recompense, and the conveyance drove away. "I suppose you fellows don't know what all this means," said Quince, as he filled a plate and sat down in the shade of the wagon.
He was doing so now: and, as he sat meditatively in his skiff, having done his best to give the liner a good send off by paddling round her in circles, the pleading face of a twenty-dollar bill peered up at him. Mr. Swenson was not the man to resist the appeal. He uttered a sharp bark of ecstasy, pressed his bowler hat firmly upon his brow, and dived in.
Perhaps we can afford space for a single specimen of his way of treating this subject; although it can be fully appreciated only by those who are old enough to remember the rage for land speculation which prevailed in 1836: "'The dense you have, said the other, looking up in astonishment 'Why, last January you were not worth a twenty-dollar bill.
"We shall see that which we shall see," he returned, enigmatically. "Waiter, bring me my check, please." While the waiter was counting out the change from a twenty-dollar bill, Farrel resumed his conversation with the girl. "Do you plan to remain in the San Gregorio very long?" "All summer, I think." He rose from his chair and bowed to her with an Old-World courtliness.
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