“Fifty dollars!” exclaimed Oliver, in some dismay. “I thought I could get more! The watch cost over a hundred.”
“That is all we can allow.”
“I cannot let it go for that;” and Oliver slipped the timepiece in his pocket.
The clerk paid another visit to the office.
“We will make that sixty dollars,” he said, coming back. “You will not get more anywhere.”
“I shall try,” replied Oliver.
Another establishment was close at hand. But here the proprietor would not go above fifty dollars; so Oliver went back to the first place.
“I guess I’ll take that sixty dollars,” he said.
“Told you you couldn’t get any more,” returned the clerk coolly, as he made out the ticket and handed over the money.