"He averages seventy-five dollars a week. But it would be more, if he was able to get around and attend to it."
"A hundred dollars a week would mean about thirty dollars profit," said Nelson, who was quick at figures. "How much is the rent?"
"Five dollars a week."
"That would leave twenty-five dollars for the stand-keeper. Does he have a boy?"
"Yes, and pays him three dollars a week."
"Maybe we could buy the stand together, Van Pelt. You know all about books, and I know about the newspapers. We ought to make a go of it."
"That's so, but——" The book agent looked rather dubiously at our hero's clothes. "How about the cash?"
"We might save it somehow. I'm saving up for a suit now."
"You need the suit."