Also he charged a round commission on the wages of Lon Taft and Ned Long, and doubled the liveryman's bill for hauling the goods over from the Junction.

Ethel Thompson had refused to accept any payment for what she had done, but Peggy bravely charged it up at good round figures.

When the bill was made out and figured up it left him a magnificent surplus for his private account; but at the last his heart failed him, and he made out another bill more modest in its extortions.
He had brought them both along, though, one in each pocket, vacillating between them as he thought first of the Merrick millions and then of the righteous anger he might incur.

By the time Uncle John came out to him, smiling and cordial, he had not thoroughly made up his mind which account to present.
"I must thank you for carrying out my orders so intelligently," began the millionaire.

"Without your assistance I might have found things in bad shape, I fear." McNutt was reassured.