Capitolo 64
to-night? A cent would not have cost him."
Then Hogan went adrift street to the calculations of how much money that Joe was
serving as his/her business. He knew the prices debited for meals and
what they was allowed a great margin of profit.
The more than he has thought of it, the more thrilled him was with the extension
of the fortune of Joe.
"The boy owes to be doing his/her fortune", he told him. "Because, him
you/he/she cannot help compensation from one to two hundred dollars for week--perhaps
more. It is a business of money-creation, there is without doubt of him. Because
could not you/he/she take me in as partner? That would put me on my legs
again, and in duration I would be rich. I would do him/it sell out, and it get the
whole thing after a little."
Then persuaded Hogan him in the sentence that Joe should have
the approved one as partner, although because this should be, since his unique
application remained on its attempt succeeded to defraud him/it to New York it,
it would be difficult to conjecture.
Slowly wondering aimlessly long, Hogan had reached the angle of Pacific
Road, then a dark and mistrustful place in the immediate one
district of a number of low houses of public of bad reputation. The
night was dark, for there any moon it was.
Suddenly he felt him it grabbed in a narrow taking, while a minimum, austere
expresses in his/her in demand ear:
"Your money, and is rapid around him!"
Hogan was not a brave man but this application in his deprived of money,
conditions, instead of terrorizing him/it, it struck his/her sense of the humor as a
very good joke.
"You have the wrong man!" he snickered.
"Firm to joke, and gives on Your money, quickly!" it was the stern
replica.
"My dear friend", said Hogan "if you can find some money around me,
it is more than I can make."
"Is it on the plaza?" suspiciously demanded the other.
"You look at me, and sees."
The bandit the takings to his/her word. Turning on a match, he observed
his/her prisoner.
"You don't seem rich, that is a fact", he admitted. "Where you are
going?"
"I don't know. I have it didn't find money, neither some place to sleep."