d to hear his
nephew use the little German he had taught him. "_Wie viel geld haben
sie?"_

"_Mehr als vier-und-dreisig thaler_," replied Leopold, who had been
preparing himself, during his walk from the hotel to the store, to speak
what German he had thus far uttered.

"_Viel geld!_" cried the watch-maker.

"How much have I now?" asked Leopold, in plain English, forgetting for
the time all the rest of the German he knew.

"_Sprechen Deutsch!_" exclaimed the watch-maker.

"I don't remember any more German," laughed the young man. "How much
money have I now?"

Herr Schlager opened the iron safe and placed in one of its draws the
sum just given him by his nephew, and took therefrom a slip of paper.
Leopold added the sums he had deposited, and made the amount
eighty-seven dollars and some cents.

"Das is nicht enough, Leopold--eh?" asked the uncle.

"No, not yet."

"How many more you want of dollars?"

"I don't know exactly. They ask two hundred; but, as it is rather late
in the season, I think they will take one hundred and fifty," replied
Leopold, thoughtfully.

"You shall buy him now."

"Not this year, Uncle Leopold; and next spring they will put the price
up again. I haven't even a hundred and fifty dollars."

"I shall let you haf de rest of das geld."

This proposition produced an argument; but the nephew finally consented
to borrow the balance of the sum required, if one hundred and fifty
dollars would answer the purpose. Leopold left the shop with an anxious
heart; but in a couple of hours he returned for his own money and the
loan.

CHAPTER VI.

MISS SARAH LIVERAGE.

For several months the landlord's son had had his eye on a new
keel-boat, built during the preceding winter, which the owner did not
feel able to keep for his own use. With a sort of desperate
determination, Leopold had been saving every cent he earned about the
hotel, or in his boat, in order to purchase this new craft, or one like
it if she should be sold before his accumulations enabled him to buy
her. The owner asked two hundred dollars for her; but as the season
advanced, Leopold hoped to buy her for less. The matter had looked very
hopeless to him until his first lucky catch of mackerel; and the second
fortunate trip inspired him with confidence. His uncle had been his only
confidant, and they had often discussed the project together. But now
Herr Schlager had advanced the sum he needed to make the purchase, and
t