"Have you any of it with you?"
"Only a dollar or two."
"That won't do."
"Why do you ask?"
"Because I should want part or the whole of it in advance."
"I shouldn't be willing to pay you in advance," said the newsboy, whose confidence in his stepfather's integrity was by no means large.
"Why not?"
"I'll pay you when you bring Rose. That's fair enough."
"Perhaps you wouldn't have the money."
"Then you could carry her back again."