"And with all that money in your pocket you asked me for five dollars!" exclaimed Sam, with justifiable indignation.
"Why shouldn't I? Haven't you got more than I have?"
Tim began to see that he had made a mistake in proclaiming his riches; especially when Sam added that he might buy his own dinner—that he wasn't going to treat him.
"You promised you would," said Tim.
"I didn't know you had so much money. I thought you was hard up. You're a fraud."
"So are you," said Tim, resentfully.
"I don't want no more to do with you."
Tim was nettled. He wanted to be revenged, and his secret slipped out.
"You needn't feel so big," he said. "I got you 'bounced.'"
Here was much cause for astonishment.