Ransom of Red Chief
Montāžas Teksta
- We should kidnap someone and put a ransom for two thousand dollars!
- The victim should be the child of a prominent citizen, like Ebenezer Dorset.
- Hey, little boy! Would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?
- Red Chief, would you like to go home?
- Aw, what for? I don't have any fun at home. I hate to go to school. I like to camp out. You won't take me back home again, Snake-eye, will you?
- If you agree to these terms, send your answer in writing by a solitary messenger tonight at half-past eight o'clock. ... The messenger will place the answer in this box and return immediately to Summit. If you attempt any treachery or fail to comply with our demand as stated, you will never see your boy again. If you pay the money as demanded, he will be returned to you safe and well within three hours. These terms are final, and if you do not accede to them, no further communication will be attempted. -Two Desperate Men
- Ebenezer Dorset, ESQ.:We have your boy concealed in a place far from Summit. It is useless for you or the most skillful detectives to attempt to find him. Absolutely the only terms on which you can have him restored to you are these: We demand fifteen hundred dollars in large bills for his return; the money to be left at midnight tonight at the same spot and in the same box as your reply-as hereinafter described.
- Two Desperate Men: Gentlemen, I received your letter today by post, in regard to the ransom you ask for you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands, and I hereby make you a counterproposition, which I am inclined to believe you will accept. You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands.
- You had better come at night, for the neighbors believe he is lost, and I couldn't be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back. Very respectfully,Ebenezer Dorset
- Enough, in ten minutes I shall cross the Central, Southern, and Middle Western States and be legging it trippingly for the Canadian border
- How long can you hold him?
- Here is $250.
- I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I think I can promise you ten minutes.
Izveidoti vairāk nekā 30 miljoni stāstu shēmu