"Well, you see, Benson," he said, at last, "I don't want to draw for such a sum against my check account before to-morrow."
"I think we could come again to-morrow, if we have to," responded young Benson, as though thinking it over.
"I am going to make a deposit in my bank in the morning," continued the man.
"Then we are to come again to-morrow evening?" insisted Jack.
"Why, hang it, no. If you'll take cash, instead of check, I can let you have the money to-night."
But that gentleman added, under his breath:
"I may as well settle to-night as have them coming again to-morrow."
"Why, certainly we'll take the cash, to-night," replied young Benson, his face beaming at thought of how easily a fine commission was to be earned as part of an evening's pleasure.
Mr. Forrester, having made the offer, began secretly to regret it. He was a man who meant to pay his debts, but just now he felt that he would really like to have the money to use in other directions.
Jack, however; began to suspect that some such thought was in the other's mind.