Another, seeing me going to Chicago alone, warned me to beware of the impositions of hack-drivers; telling me that I must pay two dollars if I did not make a bargain beforehand.

While they were debating in what way it should be sent to ensure its reaching her without cost to herself, in an unwise moment she sent twenty-five dollars to 'Bleeding Kansas,' and the fit of good feeling towards her ebbed; the 'testimonial' remains unsent.

'No introduction is necessary,' said Mr. Lockworth; and putting his hand into his pocket, drawing out the two dollars, he added, 'I am already in your debt just this sum!'

With the last four or five years the business has become organized, and today many millions of dollars are invested in it.

Millions on millions of dollars invested in artificial fur farming, and the general public utterly in the dark concerning the facts until recently, when its scope could no longer be concealed, like a light hidden under a bushel.

Fox pelts worth thousands of dollars must tempt some men beyond their fears, or power of resistance.

Got nigh twenty dollars for the honey.

We found 'em, too, some thousands of dollars' worth, of them; and when the news leaked out, whee!

Bijou fer sixty-five dollars.

Ten consecutive times Mr. Rinaldo Roberts had paid, by proxy, sixty-five dollars for the privilege of naming By-Jo as second choice to the son of Meteor.

Ye see, he promised to sell ye to me for two thousand dollars cash.

A young woman with fifty thousand dollars in her own right can afford to spend a little money upon her home.

The 'Bishop's' share was deposited in the local bank, but where Dick's dollars went it would be indiscreet to tell.

Not for ten thousand dollars.

Barker, therefore, had discovered the inlet which bore his name, and in consideration of his services, and with a due sense of his physical and mental qualifications, he had been appointed boss of the camp by the real ownersa syndicate of rich men, who knew that logs were worth ten dollars a thousand feet, and that the man to make them so was Tom Barker.

Dollars to Tom Barker were dearer than cardinal virtues, and he had never been known to refuse an opportunity to make a bit on any deal.

"Feature films of fairy tales, such as you propose, cost at least two thousand dollars each to produce.

"The ordinary theatre simply rents its pictures, paying about three hundred dollars a week for the service.

"The Continental is an immense corporation, and I am told it has more than a million dollars invested.

"Twenty picture theatres at twenty thousand dollars eacha low estimate, my dears, for such as you requirewould mean an investment of four hundred thousand dollars.

"Twenty picture theatres at twenty thousand dollars eacha low estimate, my dears, for such as you requirewould mean an investment of four hundred thousand dollars.

" To hear this weak, sickly youth speak of investing a million dollars in a doubtful enterprise, in spite of the fact that he lived on a far-away island and was a practical stranger in America, set them all to speculating anew in regard to his history and condition in life.

The girls did some rapid-fire mental calculations and realized that this young man was proposing to invest something like fourteen hundred thousand dollars, in order that they might carry out their philanthropic conception.

I will this afternoon place a hundred thousand dollars to your credit in the bank, with which to make advance payments, and when you notify me how much more is required I will forward my checks at once.

From the architect's office they drove to the German-American Bank, where Ajo gave his check for a hundred thousand dollars, to be placed to the credit of Mr. Wilcox, the real estate agent.