I want to see how people will receive me

    "You see we Western miners don't care much for style, perhaps not enough. Still I probably shall buy a suit or two, but not till I have made my visit home. I want to see how people will receive me, when they think I haven't got much money. I shall own up to about five hundred dollars, but that isn't enough to dazzle people even in a small country village."     "I am wiling to help you in any way you wish, Mr. Pettigrew."     "Then I think we shall get some amusement out of it. I shall represent you as worth about a hundred thousand dollars."     "I wish I were."     "Very likely you will be some time if you go out to Montana with me."     "How large a place is Burton?"     "It has not quite a thousand inhabitants. It is set among the hills, and has but one rich man, Lemuel Sheldon, who is worth perhaps fifty thousand dollars, but put on the airs of a millionaire."     "You are as rich as he, then."     "Yes, and shall soon be richer. However, I don't want him to know it. It is he who holds the mortgage on my uncle's farm."     "Do you know how large the mortgage is?"     "It is twelve hundred dollars. I shall borrow the money of you to pay it."     "I understand," said Rodney, smiling.