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Updated: June 9, 2025
What long faces the "sixers" pulled as their man began to puff and slacken pace! A half-mile race is no joke, believe me; and so Chesney began to find out. Before half the distance back was covered he showed unmistakable signs of going to pieces, and a very ominous sign took to changing from one side to another at very frequent intervals. Of course we "fivers" howled with delight!
"Cash down on the spot, guv'nor?" he asked. "Spot cash," replied Triffitt. "On this table!" "Well how would a couple o' fivers be, now?" asked the anxious one. "It's good stuff, guv'nor." "A couple of fivers will do," answered Triffitt. "And here they are." He took two brand-new, crackling five-pound notes from his pocket, folded them up, laid them on the table, and set a glass on them.
"I've seen plenty of his sort, worse luck; he'll be borrowing fivers after the first week. I'll put him on to you fellows." The globe-trotter smiled a sickly smile, and changed the subject. "What's old Grant like the man he's going to? Squatter man, I suppose?"
The Etonian put all the strength and power he had suppressed so manfully into a tremendous swipe, and hit the ball clean over the ropes. "Do you want to double that bet?" said Strathpeffer to the Caterpillar. They were standing on the top of the Trent coach. "No, thanks." "Give you two to one, Egerton?" "Done in fivers." The unhappy bowler sent down another half-volley.
A larger reinforcement which they had reckoned upon, was detained by the floods and frosts, which, for the moment, had made the roads and fivers alike impracticable.
"What does Mrs. Medwin want of you?" he thus brought out. She had come round to see him disappear, and in the relief of this prospect she again just indulged him. "The impossible." He waited another minute. "And you're going to do it?" "I'm going to do it," said Mamie Cutter. "Well then that ought to be a haul. Call it THREE fivers!" he laughed. "At seven sharp." And at last he left her alone.
Had he not won eighteenpence halfpenny, and was he not securely at peace with his wife? "I don't bet fivers," said the cautious Brindley. "But I'll bet you half-a-crown." "Done!" said Edward Henry. "When will you go?" "Either to-day or to-morrow. I must go to the Majestic first, because I've ordered a room and so on."
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