"I expected to get it in a few days. But Billy Darnley robbed me of five dollars, so I've got to wait a bit."
"Well, if we could raise that money we might buy out the stand and try our luck," continued George Van Pelt, after a thoughtful pause. "I think we'd get along. How much have you."
"Only a dollar or two now."
"I've got fifteen dollars, and about ten dollars' worth of books."
"Couldn't we get the man to trust us for the stand?"
"He said he might trust me for half the amount he asks, but fifty dollars would have to be a cash payment."
"We'll raise it somehow!" cried Nelson enthusiastically. The idea of owning a half interest in a regular stand appealed to him strongly. In his eyes the proprietor of such a stand was a regular man of business.
The pair hurried on, and at length reached the vicinity of Central Park, and Van Pelt pointed out the house in which the rich young man who had refused to take the books lived.
"Perhaps he won't let me in," he said.