“I expect to go away tomorrow.”
“Your visit is a brief one.”
“Yes, I intended to stay longer, but I begin to be homesick after the West.”
“Do you expect to make your permanent home there?”
“I can’t tell as to that. For the present I can do better there than here.”
The conversation lasted for some time. Then Jefferson Pettigrew rose to go.
“Won’t you call again, Jefferson?” asked the minister hospitably.
“I shall not have time, but before I go I want to make you a small present,” and he put into the hands of the astonished minister four fifty dollar bills.
“Two hundred dollars!” ejaculated the minister. “Why, I heard you only brought home a few hundred.”
“I prefer to leave that impression. To you I will say that I am worth a great deal more than that.”