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Speculators tried to buy his ranch, entreated him to name a price. "I'll take half a million dollars, in cold cash," said Uncle Jap. The speculators offered him instead champagne and fat cigars. Uncle Jap refused both. He was not going to be "flimflammed," no, sir! Not twice in his life, no, Siree Bob!
"You know plenty about Hill and his hunt for his dad," returned Burton. "You flimflammed Hill out of five hundred by offering to take him across the Mexican boundary and showing him where his father could be found," said Burton, with a laugh. "But you got the money, and Hill got the experience," he added. "Which," said Gerald calmly, "is mainly the reason why Hill is trying to get even with me.
He had gotten up and lit his lamp, and was pouring some milk into a tin pan on the floor for a dingy-white, half-grown, squealing pig. "'How is this, Rufe? says I. 'You flimflammed in your part of the work to-night and put the game on crutches. And how do you explain the pig? It looks like back-sliding to me. "'Now, don't be too hard on me, Jeff, says he.
"Yes, I've been talking with one of your enthusiastic riders that went out with you after us. He's been flimflammed into believing you the greatest man in the United States. Tell me how you do it." "Nick's a good boy, but I reckon he didn't tell you quite all that." "Didn't he? You should have heard him reel off your praises by the yard.
From out of the confusion it soon became apparent that they had a real grievance, and one which called for immediate satisfaction; moreover, it was made plain that the callers cared little what form that satisfaction took, whether tar and feathers or a rope and a lamp-post. They had been sold, victimized, flimflammed, skinned; the scorpion had stung them and the poison was boiling in their veins.
I couldn't swallow it then, but when Downs didn't meet us at the depot here, it came over me like a flash that you were right that we were being flimflammed." "We ought, perhaps, to have separated," the Englishman ruminated. "I ought to have gone to New York and you come here.
Who'll pay for the supper to-night at Luna's, and our railroad fare going home?" "I'll pay." "But I I can't afford to lose money this way." "Shouldn't have played, then. I took the same chances as you. Condy, I want my money." "You you why you've regularly flimflammed me." "Will you give me my money?" "Oh, take your money then!" Blix shut the money in her purse, and rose, dusting her dress.
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