"Because it will be made payable to your order, and unless indorsed by you, that is, with your signature written on the back, it would do the finder, or thief, no good."
"I don't mean to lose it, and I am not likely to meet any robbers, though my wife and Squire Bates told me I must be careful."
"Squire Bates told you that, did he?"
"Yes."
"He knows, then, that you are to receive this money to-day?"
"Yes; I told him."
"Did you tell any one else?"
"No."
"That is well. It is always best to be cautious in such cases; though I can hardly imagine, myself, that there could be any highway robbers in a quiet farming town like Waterford."
"Just what I told my wife, Mr. Marks."