13/15 "Ha, ha, ha! Of course you wouldn't. And how much did he give you ?" "Yay!" cried the other, joyously. "Didn't he go and hand me a dollar!" "How much will you take not to tell him that I stopped you and read it; how much not to speak of me at all ?" "What ?" "It's a foolish kind of joke, nothing more. I'll give you five dollars never to tell anyone that you saw me today." "Don't shoot, Colonel," exclaimed the youth, with a riotous fling of bare feet in the air, "I'll come down!" "You'll do it ?" "Five!" he shouted, dancing upon the boards. "Five! I'll cross my heart to die I never hear tell of you, or ever knew they was sich a man in the world!" Carewe bent over him. |