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"Five hundred dollars in it for you. Two-fifty on the spot, and the rest" "He was my friend, I say," finished the Captain. "I'll see you and the gang, and the city, and the party in the flames of Hades before I'll take the stand against Dan Pickering. I'm down and out; but I'm no traitor to a man that's been my friend." The Captain's voice rose and boomed like a split trombone.
Park out pretty well near the shore end as close as you can get to that ten-foot gum sign, and be ready to go when I climb in. I may have a friend with me. You know Oakland?" "Fair to middling. I can get around by myself." "Well, that's all right. I've got to go back to the city catching the next train. You better take the two-fifty to Oakland. Here's money for whatever expense there is.
"No, no," answered Ravenslee, springing to his feet, "the Old Un hasn't called 'Time' yet." "Not me!" piped the old man, "not bloomin' likely! Go to it, both on ye mind, that's two-fifty for me, Joe!"
Of the two-fifty, you extract a dollar, feeling that the Senior Holden is a cheapskate. You slip the other buck and a half into an envelope, ready for the conductor's hand. He'll think Holden Senior is more of a cheapskate, and by the time he extracts his cut, the dining car steward will know that Holden Senior is a cheapskate. But
Thank goodness, we've paid only two-fifty on it." "Yes, it's got to go," said Etta. "And we've got to pay Mrs. Quinlan the six we owe her and get out tonight. We'll go up to the top floor up to Mrs. Cassatt. She takes sleepers. Then we'll see." An hour later they had moved; for Mrs. Quinlan was able to find two lodgers to take the rooms at once. They were established with Mrs.
We'll make an indoor set of it." "Go you," promptly agreed Harrison. His vanity craved a picture of him thrashing the extra, a good one that the public could see and that he could afterwards gloat over himself. Yeager laughed in his slow way. "I'm to be massa-creed to make a Roman holiday, am I? All right. Might as well begin earning that two-fifty per I've been promised."
Draw up a contract and I'll sign it. And here's a check for your two-fifty in advance." The editor drew up the agreement with a pen that trembled a little. "And now," said Uncle John, "get busy and hustle for Kenneth Forbes." "I will, sir," said Briggs, with unexpected energy. "I mean to win that extra five hundred!" Meantime Patsy was in the thick of the fray.
"I offered you two-fifty, and you said I should have it, and you got me to call at your house to come here for it." "I cannot sacrifice the property of my ward," said Squire Pope. "I must ascertain how much the violin is worth." "A bargain is a bargain, every time!" said Nick, irritated.
"Two dollars and fifty cents," said the young bidder, a shade of excitement now betraying itself in his voice. The girl opened her mouth, perhaps to protest, and then closed it again. "Two-fifty!" bawled the auctioneer. "Two-fifty? Going any more? Going going " he brought his big hands together with a slap, "Gone! at two dollars and fifty cents, to who's the party, Ben?"
I nefer see a petter market for a deluge. From Barry's movements all day I should say dey vould keep hoistin' her until apout noon to-morrow, unt dat deh might get her up to two-tirty or even to deh two-fifty. Put dere are von or two topes on deh sheet vhat run deh uder vay.
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