“The other half by check in two hours.” The parties signed the contract respectively.
Then Meadows and Clinton went off to the Five-per-Center, completed with him, got the title deeds, brought them, received check and accepted draft. Clinton, by Meadows' advice, went in and dunned for his commission then and there, and got it, and the confederates went off and took a hasty dinner together. After dinner they settled.
“As you showed me how to get this commission out of them, it belongs to you,” said Clinton, sorrowfully.
“It does, sir. Give it to me. I return it to you, sir; do me the favor to accept it.”
“You are very generous, Mr. Meadows.”
“And here is the other fifty you have earned.”
“Thank you, my good sir. Are you satisfied with the day's work?”
“Amply, sir. Your skill and ingenuity brought us through triumphant,” said Meadows, resuming the deferential, since he risked nothing by it now.
“Well, I think I managed it pretty well. By the by, that gold you showed them, was it really gold?”
“Certainly.”