"The two shillin's Jerome is goin' to have to-night.

He's been splittin' of kindlin'-wood, after school, for your sister, this week, and she's goin' to pay him the same as she did for weedin'.

You can take this now, if you want to, or wait and have it all together." "I'll wait, thank you," replied Eben Merritt.

For the moment he felt actually dismayed and ashamed at the sight of his ready interest money.

It was almost like having a good deed thrust back in his face and made of no account.