46/52 More'n some of 'em do themselves, bashfulness stoppin' me from namin' any names," he added. "Do you mean to tell me, Jed Winslow," he said, "that you would lend me five hundred dollars without any security or without knowing in the least what I wanted it for ?" "Why--why, of course. 'Twouldn't be any of my business what you wanted it for, would it ?" "Humph! Have you done much lending of that kind ?" "Eh? |