"Well," said Wyeth, slowly, "you should have some idea of the work, since, with your years back in South Carolina, you were so successful; but more so, since you have been over a territory I have worked."
"You certainly did fill Brookville with it, I must say," he admitted.
Wyeth smiled.
"Wish you hadn't worked that neighborhood, though," he said regretfully.
"Others are yet to be worked...."
"But I know everybody in that neighborhood."
"So do I—now."
Slim laughed a low, sorrowful laugh, and then was thoughtful. Then he inquired: "What commission do you pay?"
"Forty per cent. Sixty cents the book."
"Do I have to pay for the books before I can have them to deliver?"