David was not glad that he was there, for the expression on Dan's face told him that he had seen and heard more than he had any business to know.

David made haste to finish his trading after that, and when he had purchased a dress and a pair of shoes for his mother, and a pair of shoes and stockings for himself, he handed out his ten-dollar bill in payment.

Dan's eyes seemed ready to start from their sockets at the sight of it.
"Never mind that, now," said the grocer, pushing it back.

"Perhaps you will need it some day and I can wait six months, if you are not ready to settle up before." Dan's eyes opened still wider, and when his brother, after thanking the grocer for his kindness and confidence, gathered up his purchases and left the store, he followed slowly after him, so wholly lost in wonder that he never recollected that he had six dollars in his own pocket, and that he had come there to spend the best part of five of it.

He walked along at a little distance behind his brother, looking thoughtfully at the ground all the while, as if he were revolving some perplexing question in his mind, and then quickened his pace to overtake him.
"Le' me carry some of them things," said he, as he came up with David.
"No, I thank you," replied the latter, who knew that Dan never would have offered to help him, if he had not hoped to gain something by it.