“You didn’t get a bet yet,” he said, with a hiccough.
“That’s what I’m waiting for. You promised, you know.”
“Tell you, pardner, I took you into that pool-room to do you out of a couple of hundred, and I’d a got forty fer doin’ it.”
“That’s quite awful!” exclaimed Nick, throwing up his hands in astonishment.
“But I liked the way you bumped those toughies up there, and you have acted square in bringing me here, so that I’m goin’ ter give you a tip.”
“Weally, now?”
“Yes; you’re a man of your word, ain’t you?”
“’Pon honah!”
“Well, then, I want you to promise me that you will give me half a century after you get your money.”
“Weally, now, isn’t that too much?”