fraudulent
['fr:djlnt], philoprogenitiveness [,flpr'entvns], ought [:t], radius ['reds], budget ['bt]Bill and me had a joint capital of about six hundred dollars, and we needed just two thousand dollars more to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois with. We talked it over on the front steps of the hotel. Philoprogenitiveness, says we, is strong in semi-rural communities therefore, and for other reasons, a kidnapping project ought to do better there than in the radius of newspapers that send reporters out in plain clothes to stir up talk about such things. We knew that Summit couldn't get after us with anything stronger than constables and, maybe, some lackadaisical bloodhounds and a diatribe or two in the Weekly Farmers' Budget. So, it looked good.
We selected for our victim
(в качестве нашей жертвы мы избрали) the only child of a prominent citizen named Ebenezer Dorset (единственного ребенка видного жителя города по имени Эбенезер Дорсет;