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Ned importantly spread out quite a voluminous order list before Frank.

"Accompanied with the cash," added Ned, and set down a crisp, encouraging-looking five-dollar bill beside the document.

"Oh!" ejaculated Markham, almost falling off his chair with surprise.

"Ned," said Frank, with a touch of genuine feeling, "thank you."

"That's all right," responded Ned. "We're simply working to get your bank account when it runs up into the thousands, see?"

"Will it ever, I wonder?" murmured Frank.

"Isn't that a nest egg?" challenged the practical young financier.