"I don't know as it would; but what good would it do?"
"They give you interest, don't they?"
"Yes, but it's only six per cent. The interest on twenty-five dollars would only come to a dollar and a half in a year. That's too slow for me."
"What would you advise me to do, then?" asked Sam. "Is there any way of making money?"
"I'll tell you what I'd do if I were you. I'd buy part of a ticket in the Havana lottery."
"Could I make money that way?"
"Say you bought a fifth of a ticket; that would come to ten dollars. Now the biggest prize is a hundred thousand dollars!"
It almost took away Sam's breath to think of such a large sum.
"I couldn't draw that, could I?" he asked, eagerly.
"You might draw a fifth of it; that would be twenty thousand dollars."