per annum, payable half-yearly, as well as for the principal sum of 300 pounds, so advanced as aforesaid.'" "If it should prove, sir, that money is owing," Mr.Cheeseman said, with that exalted candour which made a weak customer condemn his own eyes and nose, "no effort on my part shall be wanting, bad as the times are, to procure it and discharge it.

In every commercial transaction I have found, and my experience is now considerable, that confidence, as between man and man, is the only true footing to go upon.

And how can true confidence exist, unless--" "Unless a man shows some honesty.

And a man who keeps books such as these," pursued the visitor, suggesting a small kick to a pile of ledgers, "can hardly help knowing whether he owes a large sum or whether he has paid it.

But that is not the only question now.