Pay up promptly and your credit will always
be good."
"All I ask of you," continued David, "is that you will wait about a
month longer, until----"
"Can't do it; can't possibly do it," exclaimed Silas, shaking his
head and waving his hands up and down in the air. "Must have money
to-day. My creditors are pushing me, and I must push everybody whose
name is on my books."
"But my name isn't on your books."
"Your father's is, and if you have any honor about you, you will see
the debt paid."
"That's what I mean to do, but I can't pay it now."
"Can't wait a single day," said Silas. "If the money isn't
forthcoming at once, you can't get a single thing at my store from
this time forward, unless you have the cash to plank right down on
the counter."
"I have always paid you for everything I have bought of you," said
David, with some spirit.
"I know it; but your father hasn't, and if you want me to show you
any favors, you will pay that debt to-day. You have always been
called an honest boy, and if you want to keep that reputation, you
had better be doing something."
So saying, Silas wheeled his horse and rode away, leaving David lost
in wonder.
CHAPTER III.
AN OFFER OF PARTNERSHIP.
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