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Me go now." Mr. Tretherick violently suggested a profane locality. Ah Fe gazed at him placidly, and withdrew. Before leaving Fiddletown, however, he accidentally met Colonel Starbottle, and dropped a few incoherent phrases which apparently interested that gentleman. When he concluded, the colonel handed him a letter and a twenty-dollar gold piece.
It's beautiful. Gentlemen," he addressed the American officers, "I am offering twenty-dollar gold pieces to this gun crew if they bring down that tower with a single shot. Now, then, careful!... "Ready!" We covered our ears as the shot crashed forth, and a moment later the most costly and graceful tower in the world seemed to stagger on its base.
Sumter had pondered much over the result of her husband's investigations. Although Miriam's desk was open and its contents lay scattered on the table, nothing was missing, even to the packet of ten-and twenty-dollar "greenbacks" in its secret drawer. If robbery had been the object of the intruder, he had neglected his opportunity, or else been frightened off in time.
There come along a peddler in a smart red wagon, with all sorts of women's trash packed into it, and Gracie took it into her head to want some of his things. It happened to be her birthday that day, and, as she didn't often pester me about clothes, I told her to choose out what she wanted, up to five dollars' worth, and, if the feller could change me a twenty-dollar note, I'd pay for it.
Asked me every kind of question so as to get something. You bet I was giving nothing away. 'I'd pay for it and pay well, said he, 'if I could get some stuff that would suit my editor. I said what I thought would please him best, and he handed me a twenty-dollar bill for my information. 'There's ten times that for you, said he, 'if you can find me all that I want."
All yours if you can tell me what I want to know." A golden twenty-dollar coin rolled free, shone with its virgin newness and lay on the table-top, gleaming its lure into the covetous old eyes. Another followed it and another. King regretted that there were not more, that the parcel contained banknotes for the most part. He began counting it out. "There's one thousand dollars.
"It's a big thing you've helped to do, lads," Jacob Farnum assured the two strong young sailors. "You're entitled to some of the fruits of your work. How will this do?" Whereupon he pressed upon each Jack Tar a couple of twenty-dollar bills. "We've a couple of hours of shore leave left to us," grinned one of the sailors. "Is there anyone else you want caught, friend?"
He thrust into his pocket everything excepting five twenty-dollar gold pieces. These he left standing in a little pile. "I'll give you just exactly one hundred dollars for a look at what is in that box of yours." In sudden alarm the old man shambled back to his bunk, his hands on the bedding over the box. "You'd grab it an' run," he clacked. "You'd rob me. You're worse than Brodie "
She had a leather bag in her hands, and she seized it by the bottom and turned out its contents a score or more of twenty-dollar gold pieces. "Take them," she said as he hesitated. And, not waiting for him to act, she began to gather them up. She was nervous, though, and dropped many of them several times, so that he felt that time would have been gained if she had not touched them.
Indeed, I know that there is, but I do not like to give my reasons till I have conquered the difficulties presented by these men having had the twenty-dollar bill." "What fellow is this?" suddenly broke in Knapp. "A fiddler, a nobody," quietly whispered Mr. Fenton in his ear.
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