It was plain that a large bad debt might involve them in difficulties.

Wilkinson had forced her to fight, and she meant to show him no mercy, but she must say nothing that could afterwards be brought up against her.
"Character counts for as much as dollars," she remarked.

"That was my father's motto, and he was never afraid to take steep chances by backing an honest man.

Although he had debts on his books for three or four years, it was seldom a customer let him down.

But he cut out a crook as soon as he suspected what the fellow was.