"Perhaps your employer would repudiate the bill."
"I'll pay it myself, right here and now."
"I'll take you up. You can have the page for one hundred dollars. When can I have the copy?"
"Not at all at that price," replied Al, coolly. "The page wouldn't be worth that much to us. I'll give you fifty dollars, cash now, and the copy in an hour or less."
After a moment's hesitation, the proprietor of the Bugle said:
"Done! Give me the fifty dollars, and I'll give you a receipt for four hundred. But mind, mum's the word about this deal."
"You may depend upon me, sir."
"But," asked Mr. Marcus, "how are you going to have a full page of copy ready in an hour?"
"I'll get it ready," replied Al. "Your foreman will have it on time."
He handed the publisher the fifty dollars, and received a receipt for four hundred.