“Now,” said the young man, “point out the clerk that has my money.”
“That’s him,” said Dick, pointing out the clerk.
The gentleman walked up to the counter.
“I will trouble you,” he said a little haughtily, “for a bill which that boy offered you, and which you still hold in your possession.”
“It was a bad bill,” said the clerk, his cheek flushing, and his manner nervous.
“It was no such thing. I require you to produce it, and let the matter be decided.”
The clerk fumbled in his vest-pocket, and drew out a bad-looking bill.
“This is a bad bill, but it is not the one I gave the boy.”
“It is the one he gave me.”
The young man looked doubtful.