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"PAY ME IN CASH," SAID MR. CHAFFIN, AND I MAY PERHAPS AGREE TO IT."

Mr. Trimmer had never seen it, but he thought he could not do any harm in saying this; he might have remembered that neither was it likely to do any good.

"But you see," he continued, "my client has a romantic attachment to the place. You gain nothing, Mr. Chaffin, by keeping it; while he loses everything. Cancel the sale, my dear sir, and save all further trouble."

"What do you mean by 'cancelling'?"

"Take the money back, and give him the property."

Mr. Chaffin made difficulties, but he did not repudiate the idea as strongly as it had been feared he would do. To tell the truth, he had lost confidence in the Sandy Frith Company, and would not have been sorry to put an end to his connection with it altogether.

"Where's the money to come from," he asked, "if I were willing?"

Dean had brought it with him, and, to Mr. Chaffin's surprise, took a roll of bank-notes from his pocket. He would pay in cash, he said, all that he had received in cash. The greater part of the purchase-money had been given him in bonds of the company; these also he had with him, and would return.

I thought so," said Chaffin. "Those bonds were worth something when I handed them to you. Nobody knows what their value is now. I don't want them, at any rate; I have too many already. Pay me in cash, and I may, perhaps, agree to it."

"I can't," said Dean; "not till I have sold the bonds, at all events. You persuaded me to take them, Mr. Chaffin; you said they were of more value than Bank of England notes."

"So they were at that time. But what is the use of talking? Give me cash, and I'll settle with you now, this minute. There's the conveyance," he said, taking it from a tin box and