So I thank you for your honesty as well as for your services.

Good morning." The agent was thoroughly ashamed of himself.

To be "sech a duffer" as to return that money, when by means of a little strategy he might have kept it, made him feel both humiliated and indignant.

A hundred and forty dollars; When would he have a chance to get such a windfall again?
Pah! he was a fool--to copy his identical thoughts: "a gol dum blithering idjit!" All the way home he reflected dismally upon his lack of business foresight, and strove to plan ways to get money "out'n thet easy mark." "Didn't the man rob you, Uncle ?" asked Louise, when the agent had disappeared.
"Yes, dear; but I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of knowing I realized it." "That was what I thought.

By the way, that Wegg history seems both romantic and unusual," she said, musingly.