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He knew now that it was Strong's letter she had destroyed in anger. He would have given much to know what the man she despised so heartily had written to her. If he could have seen that brief note he would have read: DEAR ALIX: I enclose my checque for two-fifty. If all goes well I hope to clean up the indebtedness by the first of the year.
"Don't you think we could make it do?" she asked him, and he could see that she had mentally saved five hundred dollars as the difference between the rent of their house and that of this flat. "It has some very pretty features, and we could manage to squeeze in, couldn't we?" "You won't find another furnished flat like it for no two-fifty a month in the whole city," the superintendent put in.
All is not gold that glitters, but it is a wise child that keeps the stopper in his bottle of testing acid. Where Broadway skirts the corner of the square presided over by George the Veracious is the Little Rialto. Here stand the actors of that quarter, and this is their shibboleth: "'Nit, says I to Frohman, 'you can't touch me for a kopeck less than two-fifty per, and out I walks."
It's a man's work, isn't it?" "Somebody's got to do this sort of thing," protested the small part of his brain that earned the two-fifty per working day. "And it's a great anaesthetic. He can't think when he's doing it. There's something practical about figures, and rational." He dressed quickly, ascertaining that he had enough money to buy a five-dollar ticket at Mrs.
"Two hundred and thirty thousand dollars." "Whee-ee-ee-ew!" Both his auditors joined in the whistle. "They asked two-fifty." "Half of that would have bought," said Sterne. Hal digested that information in silence for a minute. "I suppose I was easy. Hurry never yet made a good bargain. But, now that I've got this paper I'm going to run it myself." "On the rocks," prophesied McGuire Ellis.
"With the Lone Star outfit." "Get fired?" "Company gone out of business country getting too popular, what with homesteaders, forest rangers, and Mary's little lamb," explained Steve. "Hm! Can you ride a bucker?" "I can pull leather and kinder stick on." "I'll try you out for a week at two-fifty a day if you like." "You've hired Steve Yeager," promptly announced the owner of that name.
She might wake up to the fact that you're a mighty pretty young woman and suddenly become temperamental. She has a husband round the lot somewhere. Make him think his wife is a lucky woman. Here's all the dope introduction, expenses, and tickets. Train leaves at two-fifty. Run along home and pack. Remember, I want a page yarn. No flapdoodle or mush; straight stuff.
We'll start here with the misses' an' children's, and work over to the other side." Whereupon Louie was introduced into the intricacies of the sample shoe business. He kept his eyes resolutely away from the V, and learned many things. He learned how shoes that look like six dollar values may be sold for two-fifty.
"There's sheets to be aired " she began, but checked suddenly to stare at him again. "Look a here, Mr. Geoffrey," she went on, "my terms is two-fifty a week, ten dollars with board, and a week in advance." "Good!" nodded Mr. Ravenslee, "but since I'm coming in at such short notice, I'll pay three weeks ahead just to er bind the bargain. See that will be thirty dollars, won't it?"
If he had done so, he would have arrived there at twenty-four minutes past two. He reached there, in fact, at two-fifty, ten minutes of three. A half-hour of his time isn't accounted for. He left the hotel at two-twenty-one. Where did he spend that last half-hour? It's an interesting point." "Yes," Bristow said, surprised. "Pawnshops?" "Perhaps two pawnshops."
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