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He took a sharp look at the two men; his practised eye told him they were not plungers, more of the class that usually bet ten dollars at the outside; they were evidently betting on information; two one-hundred-dollar bets coming together on Lauzanne probably meant stable money. "Let's git out, mister," cried Old Bill, clutching Mortimer's arm. "Don't I get anything a receipt, or "
He then informed Sommers that he did not know how much money was in the pocketbook; that he had taken some fifty and one-hundred-dollar bills out of it, but that fearing to have so much money about him he had replaced a large portion of what he had previously taken. The time was now approaching for visitors to leave the prison, and Sommers arose to go.
The offer evoked the greatest enthusiasm, was unanimously accepted by the thousands of employees, and amid great rejoicing the meeting adjourned; only to find by the advice of their counsel next morning that under the laws of the State of Illinois such a settlement was made a crime, and that for every workman who received his wages each week only half in cash, the employer would be liable to a one-hundred-dollar fine, and thirty days' imprisonment.
I advise you not to commit murder without special orders, do you understand?" "It is the custom of the country," assented Oscar, in a tone of deep regret. "To be sure," laughed Armitage; "and now I am going to give you money enough to carry out the project I have indicated." He took from his trunk a long bill-book, counted out twenty new one-hundred-dollar bills and threw them on the table.
Smith," said one of the boarders. Mr. Smith read as follows: "About noon yesterday a boy entered the banking house of Jones & Robinson, in Wall Street, and offered for sale two one-hundred-dollar government bonds. On inquiry, he said that the bonds belonged to a man in the street, whom he had never before met, and who had offered him a dollar to sell them.
"Stake the feller, Gib," advised McGuffey, and wiped away a vagrant tear. He was quite overcome at his own generosity and the manner in which it had touched the hard heart of the iniquitous mate. Mr. Gibney laid five one-hundred-dollar bills in the mate's palm.
It wasn't two hours later that the telephone rang like mad. A Fifth Avenue jeweller had just sold a rope of pearls to an Englishwoman who paid for it herself in crisp new one-hundred-dollar bills. The bank had returned them to him that very afternoon counterfeits. I didn't lose any time making a second arrest up at the house of mystery at Riverwood.
At the end of this séance, the sum agreed upon, three hundred dollars, was paid to the Medium in three one-hundred-dollar bills. He was asked to sign a receipt for that amount, but his nervousness was such as to make this a task of some difficulty. He made many attempts to grasp the pen presented to him, but his hand shrank from it.
That's how sure I am of my ground!" He shook papers at the man. "Last night, or rather this morning at one o'clock, to be exact, you met Luke Presson and members of the State Committee, and for two thousand dollars, paid to you in one-hundred-dollar bills, you agreed to pull out.
"All right; go your limit." "My limit? How far would six one-hundred-dollar municipal bonds and " "Good. I'll sell you six per cent of a twenty-thousand-dollar venture for the six hundred." "Six percent twenty thousand Why, that's not a man-to-man proposition! You're treating me like a child." "All right, then; three per cent for the six hundred." "Done! But no nonsense. If I lose, I lose.
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