Horatio Alger

“ After he left the room Rodney again joined Mr. Pettigrew.
"He didn't give me back any change," said the Western man. "He said he bought the tickets of a speculator at two dollars and a half each."
"Then he made two dollars out of you."
"I suppose that is the beginning. Well, that doesn't worry me. But I should like to know how he expects to get more money out of me. I don't understand the ways of this gentry."
"Nor I very well. If you are on your guard I think you won't be in any danger."
"I will remember what you say. You seem young to act as adviser to a man like me. Are you in business?" ”

“ As long as you had enough money to pay for them it is all right."
As a matter of fact Wheeler bought the tickets at the box office at one dollar and fifty cent each, which left him a profit of two dollars. When he saw how easily the Western man took it he regretted not having represented that the tickets cost three dollars each.
However, he decided that there would be other ways of plundering his new acquaintance. He took his seat again next to the miner.
"It is not very late," he said. "Would you like a run out to Central Park or to Grant's Tomb?"
"Not today. I feel rather tired. ”