"Then you are not ready to take me in as a partner yet?"
"Not quite; my friend and I can run the business very well without outside help."
"But you might make more money with me in the firm," went on Paul Barberry persistently.
"We haven't room for a third person."
"Where are you stopping now?"
"We haven't a place yet. My partner and I have just started to look for an empty store."
"Oh, then you are going to stay several days or a week."
"Yes."
"Where were you last?"
"Across the river."
"Do pretty well in Phillipsburg?"
"We did very well—until we began to run out of goods."
"I couldn't do anything in Phillipsburg," grumbled Paul Barberry. "It's only a one-horse place, anyway. So you ran out of goods there?"
"We ran out of some goods—our best sellers."
"Why don't you send for more goods?"
"We have sent, and we are expecting the cases at any moment at the Phillipsburg freight depot."
"Where is your horse and wagon?"
