“I see,” thought Robert, “I shall have to look out or I shall be cheated. It seems to cost a good deal of money to travel.”
As Robert walked along he asked various questions of his young partner as to the buildings which they passed. On reaching Broadway he said:
“I don’t care about riding. If you will walk along with me and carry the valise I will pay you a quarter more.”
“All right. Only pay me the first quarter now,” said the boy cautiously.
“Just as you like. Are you afraid I won’t pay you.”
“I dunno. I was served that way once.”
“How was it?”
“I was carryin’ a bag—a thunderin’ big bag it was, too—for a man to this very hotel. I’d carried it about a mile; when we got there he took it and was goin’ in without payin’ me.
“‘Look here, boss,’ I says, ‘you haven’t paid me.’
“‘Yes, I did,’ he says. ‘I paid you when you took the bag.’