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"I don't think the operation worth making for less than three dollars." "It is too much, Wolford. But I'll tell you what I'll do. Let it be for sixty days, and make the interest five dollars." "I to hold the cloth as security until it is paid?" "Certainly." "Very well. You shall have the money."
Wolford, his commander, was dishonorably dismissed from the service for bitter protests and harsh open criticism of the Government, and Chad, himself, felt like tearing off with his own hands the straps which he had won with so much bravery and worn with so much pride.
"Forward!" shouted Morgan, and the column shot ahead at a rattling pace, soon leaving nothing in sight but a cloud of dust. When the news became whispered among the astonished hoosiers that the polite visitor was Morgan instead of Wolford, there was gnashing of teeth in that town, despite the fact that each man had been left a horse in exchange for his own.
"I differ with you and I am not alone in differing." "Very well, Mr. Wolford," said Tompkins, in a changed tone, that evinced roused and half-indignant feeling, "you shall be paid. I can easily transfer the security to some other person, if I find it necessary to do so, and raise the amount due you."
"All right now, captain. If you and your men will form a double line along the road and watch us, we will try to show you a movement you have never seen." The captain gave the necessary order to his men, who drew up in line. "Are you ready?" asked Morgan. "All right, Wolford."
Then there came a pause, and the two men looked into each other's faces for a short time, without either of them speaking. "The year for which I loaned you ten thousand dollars expires next week," said Wolford, in a quiet tone, breaking the silence. "Does it?" returned Tompkins, affecting surprise. "I had no idea the time was so near being up. Are you sure?"
Tompkins take your time I am in no particular hurry for the money," said Wolford, with an altered tone and manner "Just when it is convenient will suit me." "Are you sure of that?" said the merchant, speaking with a slight sneer upon his lip. "Oh, yes! I thought I would need the money now, but I believe I will not. The mortgage can remain as long as you want it."
He shook his head, and uttered a decided "No." It so happened that the man was so much in need of money, that he became importunate. "I know you have it, if you would only lend it, Wolford," said he. "Let me have a hundred dollars for a month, and I will give you a good interest for it, and security besides." "What kind of security?" eagerly asked the miser, his face brightening.
He was so confident of this, that he preferred paying a high rate of interest for money for temporary purposes, rather than sell his property. So hard did he become pressed at last, that he resorted to the expedient of raising ten thousand dollars on mortgage, at ten per centum per annum. Wolford held this mortgage, as the reader is aware. It was with painful reluctance that Mr.
He was poring over his bill-book, one day, when the man he had thought of far more frequently than was pleasant to him, came in. Mr. Tompkins felt uneasy. "Ah how do you do, Mr. Wolford?" said he, affecting a pleased air. "Sit down." Wolford looked grave. He had come on business, and to him business matters were of serious import.
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