I'm satisfied with that." Men usually are, you notice, when they want credit.

"Now I tell yuh.

I ain't got that much money with me--" Casey spat and pointed his thumb toward a sign which he had nailed up just the day before, thinking that it would save both himself and his customers some embarrassment.

The sign, except that the letters were not even, was like this: "CHECKS MUST BE CASHED BY THE ONER OR THEY AIN'T CASHED" The lean man read and looked at Casey humbly.

"Well, I ain't never wrote a check in my life.