"I have never been able to understand a woman, and to tell you the truth, I am afraid of anything in petticoats."
The old broker and his beautiful niece laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks.
"Well, you'll use my money now, won't you?" she asked.
"Yes, if you will tell me what to buy."
"Oh, pshaw!"
A few days after the Gainses left the bank Fred was going along Broad street when he saw a little crowd on the sidewalk listening to a young man explaining a gas-saving appliance. Fred took a great interest in the affair and after a while asked the young man to make a visit to his office and adjust one to his gaspipe. The young man did so the next day, and Fred saw it was a good thing. He asked the young inventor what he would take for the invention.
"I only want to get a living out of it," answered the young man.
"Well, I'll give you $10,000 for it."
"It's your's," said the inventor.
In two hours the papers were signed and the money paid. Then a patent was applied for and a plant secured for the manufacture of the machines.