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In that day the construction department of the mountain division was cooped up at one end of the hall on the second floor of the building. Bucks at that time thought twice before he indorsed one of Glover's twenty-thousand-dollar specifications.
That twenty thousand is more than we can afford to lose just now. Lucky, there he comes!" Mr. Stearine entered, not with his usual smile, but with an expression like that of a man trying to be jolly with the toothache. A short, but dexterous cross-examination showed to Sandford, that, if the twenty-thousand-dollar note could be extended over to better times, Stearine was safe.
"I can drive a mowing-machine, and a thresher, but I'm not going to try an airship yet. I hired you to run her. All I want is that twenty-thousand-dollar prize, and the chance to sell airships like this after we've proved them the best for actual use." "And we can easily do that," declared Larson. "My mercury stabilizer is working to perfection." "When can we start on the race?" Mr.
It was an easy sum. Two and two made four. "Whatever agreement is fixed between you and Holliday is no affair of mine," he decided at last. "When?" "A month five weeks." "How much?" Dunham pondered. "Twenty thousand. We'll give you five for your share." They were that cool! "Not me." "A twenty-thousand-dollar purse seems reasonable," ruminated Dunham. "It may not be a popular match.
"So far I've put eight thousand, four hundred thirty-two dollars and sixteen cents into this shebang, and I ain't got a penny out yet. It just seems to chaw up money." "They all do," said the lieutenant. "It is a costly sport. But think of the twenty-thousand-dollar prize!" "I do," said Uncle Ezra, softly.
Every considerable man in Bivouac soon had his social station assigned him, the whole community being divided into classes of "hundred-thousand-dollar monikins" "fifty-thousand-dollar monikins" "twenty-thousand-dollar monikins." Great conciseness in language was a consequence of this state of feeling. The old questions of "is he honest?" "is he capable?" "is he enlightened?" "is he wise?"
The judge looked pleased. "That one? Why, that's my own was, at least, half an hour ago. You see, about that twenty-thousand-dollar proposition " They moved nearer him. They stood, the four, around the red velvet-covered table, like people waiting to be served. "The trouble is right here," said the judge, emphasizing with blunt forefinger. "The crook has a pal. That's probable, isn't it?"
"I'll have to know more than that before I can answer you, Nan," she said. "It's the only way to stop it!" Gypsy Nan whispered feverishly. "I won't split on my pals I won't I won't! But I trust you. Will you promise not to snitch if I tell you how to stop it, even if you don't go there yourself? I'm offering you a chance to stop a twenty-thousand-dollar haul.
By the way, did you ever think of that benediction of its fulness? "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." Following that earnest amen nay, did it follow, or was it blended with the last syllable of that word, so nearly that word seemed swallowed in it came the roll of that twenty-thousand-dollar organ.
"All right; go your limit." "My limit? How far would six one-hundred-dollar municipal bonds and " "Good. I'll sell you six per cent of a twenty-thousand-dollar venture for the six hundred." "Six percent twenty thousand Why, that's not a man-to-man proposition! You're treating me like a child." "All right, then; three per cent for the six hundred." "Done! But no nonsense. If I lose, I lose.
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