You already have that coming, and it's just as much yours as it will be ten days from now.

You needn't hesitate a second about drawing on it, because I am in a hurry for the moth pattern.
I find time to carve only at night, you see.

As for being under obligations to a stranger, in the first place all the debt would be on my side.

I'd get the drugs and the pattern I want; and, in the second place, I positively and emphatically refuse to be a stranger.

It would be so much better to be mutual helpers and friends of the kind worth having; and the sooner we begin, the sooner we can work together to good advantage.