In due time he was employed by a German count to secure an heiress for him.
The arrangement was that Steiner was to receive ten per cent. of the young lady's estate for arranging the match.
This looked like a snap, always providing Steiner should succeed in finding the heiress, and bring about an understanding.
Well, he found the girl with the ducats all right, but his price went up like bounds, until, not content with ten per cent. of the estate when a marriage was brought about, he asked for the whole shooting match.
Yes, and he got it, too.
How was that—why, just as easy as two and two make four. Steiner married the heiress himself.
Funny how one thing arouses a train of thought.
My wife brought home a curious Dutch stein after one of her shopping excursions, and I never looked at that affair without thinking of a certain graveyard out in Western New York.
Let me tell you how that happens.