I just thought perhaps we could get along better if I knew.

Is it----say five hundred dollars ?" "Oh dear no!" cried the Girl in a panic.

"I never could face that! It is not quite one hundred, and that seems big as a mountain to me." "Forget it!" he cried.

"The ginseng will pay more than half; that I know.

I can bring you the cash in a little over a week." She started to speak, hesitated, and at last turned to him.
"Would you mind," she said, "if I asked you to keep it until I can find a way to go to town?
It's too far to walk and I don't know how to send it.