16/19 "Boyish old chap." "Yes, isn't he ?" said Mendenhall, folding his paper. "I sold him a pretty stiff bill of goods this morning. He's going to settle here." "Friend of yours ?" "Oh, no, I never saw him before." "Why, you indorsed his check for twelve hundred and fifty," said the president, interested, but not alarmed. Doubtless the man had references. |