“One hundred—two hundred—three hundred—”
“Oh, my hundred dollars! I wonder whether it will be one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, with them! Ugh, ugh! Can’t remember the number?”
“Positively, though I once knew, I have forgotten, quite forgotten it. Strange. But never mind. You will easily learn in St. Louis. He is well known there.”
“But I have no receipt—ugh, ugh! Nothing to show—don’t know where I stand—ought to have a guardeean—ugh, ugh! Don’t know anything. Ugh, ugh!”
“Why, you know that you gave him your confidence, don’t you?”
“Oh, yes.”
“Well, then?”
“But what, what—how, how—ugh, ugh!”
“Why, didn’t he tell you?”
“No.”