"I'm selfish enough to hope that you can't pay for it in thirty days." He reflected that in all probability this reckless person was playing another long shot.

"I'll take you." Gamble piled the money into his hands, and with Polly's fountain-pen, wrote a clear and concise statement of the option upon the back of an unimportant letter.

Gresham, as soon as he had finished counting the money with caressing fingers, read and reread the option cautiously--and signed it.
Polly reached out for it.
"Let me witness this," she requested with a glance of meaning at her friend Johnny; and, writing the word "Witnesses" in its proper place, she signed her name and passed the paper to Miss Joy.

"Come in, Constance; the water's fine," she invited.

"Be a witness with me and let's all be in vulgar trade." Constance signed the paper gravely, puckering her lips adorably as she made a careful business of it.