"How much have I now?" asked Leopold, in plain English, forgetting for the time all the rest of the German he knew.
"Sprechen Deutsch!" exclaimed the watch-maker.
"I don't remember any more German," laughed the young man. "How much money have I now?"
Herr Schlager opened the iron safe and placed in one of its draws the sum just given him by his nephew, and took therefrom a slip of paper. Leopold added the sums he had deposited, and made the amount eighty-seven dollars and some cents.
"Das is nicht enough, Leopold—eh?" asked the uncle.
"No, not yet."
"How many more you want of dollars?"
"I don't know exactly. They ask two hundred; but, as it is rather late in the season, I think they will take one hundred and fifty," replied Leopold, thoughtfully.
"You shall buy him now."
"Not this year, Uncle Leopold; and next spring they will put the price up again. I haven't even a hundred and fifty dollars."