I'll tell you, if you won't speak of it.

Of course he may be all right; and I don't want to quarrel with a good customer.

All there is--he came rushing in three weeks ago to-day and said he was late for the train, and he had used up his commutation and had come off without his pocket-book, and of course could not get credit at the station office, and if I had a book he would take it and write me a check.

While he was talking he was scratching a check on a New York bank like lightning.

He made a mistake and drew it for ten dollars too much; and I hadn't a full book anyway, only one with thirty-five tickets in it, and I let him have that and gave him the difference in cash--fifteen dollars and forty-two cents.