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He had scarcely reached the street before a newsboy thrust a morning paper toward him. Frank saw that the upper half of the front page was covered with large black headlines. He snatched it, tossing the boy a "two-bit piece," and, without waiting or thinking of the change, became absorbed in the startling information it conveyed.
He said that he left the fellow on the floor in the bar-room. "Had he come to?" inquired Duane. "Sure. He asked for whisky." "Did he say anything else?" "Not to me. I heard him talkin' to the father of them girls." "You mean Colonel Longstreth?" "I reckon. He sure was some riled, wasn't he? Jest as if I was to blame fer that two-bit of a hold-up!"
Look what they did with the seven thousand I've got in the Lazette bank. They've tied it up so nobody will be able to touch it until half the lawyers in the county have had a chance to gas about it. An' by that time there won't be a two-bit piece left to argue over. No, siree, you've got to keep that coin where you can put your hands on it when you want it!" "When you want it," she smiled.
And without handing myself any flowers, I'll say I'm as well qualified as anybody. I've built fifteen of 'em, myself. I can tell you down to the last two-bit piece what it's going to stand you to put her in shipshape condition, ready to take the air. And believe me, old top, you can throw good money away faster on an airplane than you can on a jamboree. I've tried both ways; I know."
Every mawnin', early, they takes him out " "Who takes him out?" "Li'l white boy they calls Dutchy." "Nobody else goes with him?" Shanghai shook his head. "How old is this boy?" asked the canny horseman. "How ole? Why, kunnel, I reckon he's risin' fifteen, mebbe." "Smart boy?" Shanghai cackled derisively. "I loaned him a two-bit piece, kunnel, an' he tol' me all he knowed!"
It it'd rid, instead of me drawin' down after the third pass, I'd a won over thirty thousan' on the original two-bit piece." "Just the same, Shorty, this is a real system." "Huh! You got to show me." "I did show you. Come on with me now and I'll show you again."
Jim Wilson seemed to drink in the girl's words. Sullen and somber, he bent his lean head, very still, as if listening. "You'd better shut up," said Riggs, darkly. "I will not shut up," declared Bo. "Then I'll gag you," he threatened. "Gag me! Why, you dirty, low-down, two-bit of a bluff!" she exclaimed, hotly, "I'd like to see you try it. I'll tear that long hair of yours right off your head."
No, if they found her with the horse they'd take him away from her and send her back on another one to do the kitchen work," he conjectured with some contempt. "If they found YOU without the horse well men have been hung on suspicion, Bud. Money's something everybody wants, and there ain't a man in the valley but what has figured your winnings down to the last two-bit piece.
"Busted!" ejaculated Anson, with a curse, as he slammed down his cards. "If I ain't hoodooed I'm a two-bit of a gambler!" "Sartin you're hoodooed," said Shady Jones, in scorn. "Is thet jest dawnin' on you?" "Boss, you play like a cow stuck in the mud," remarked Moze, laconically. "Fellars, it ain't funny," declared Anson, with pathetic gravity. "I'm jest gittin' on to myself. Somethin's wrong.
You must a-been sawing wood right industrious on the hawssback ride and down in the tunnel. I expect there wasn't any sunshine down there, was there?" "You go to grass, Steve." "No, Tennessee is ce'tainly no two-bit man. Lemme see. One two three four days. That's surely going some," the ranger soliloquized. "Mr. Fraser," the young woman reproved with a blush. "Don't mind him, Peggy.
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