Each deal is like a Chinese puzzle.

You never do it twice alike." "Try this one," urged Lofty.

"There's a good commission in it." "Commission?
Not for Johnny!" promptly refused that young man; "I'll buy it myself, and hold you up for it." "If you come at me too strongly I'll build that tunnel," warned Lofty.
"I'll figure it just below tunnel prices," Johnny laughingly assured him.

The gray shawl with the pink relief came up just then, and all four of them immediately bought it for Johnny's sole surviving mother..