It is a curious thing that people who receive money are supposed to be under obligations to those who pay it, no matter what the deal may be.

We say "thank you" to the man who pays us for a day's wages; but why, if the work is worth the money?
Well, as I looked about among the governor's working people, as I have said, I saw a head taller than the rest, the big form of Pitt Bushyager.

He was looking at me with that daredevil smile of his, the handsomest man there, with his curling brown mustache and goatee; and nodded at me as the judge got into the carriage in the back seat with Mrs.Stone, and Virginia came up in her pretty pink silk, with the Paisley shawl around her shoulders, to be helped up into the front seat with me.

The satchel of money was placed under the seat where the judge could feel it with his feet.
We drove off in that silence which comes with the drowsiness that follows excitement, especially along toward morning.

The night was dark and still.