Uncle Abner, Master Of Mysteries by Melville Davisson Post

I ALWAYS THOUGHT my father took a long chance, but somebody had to take it and certainly I was the one least likely to be suspected. It was a wild country. There were no banks. We had to pay for the cattle, and somebody had to carry the money. My father and my uncle were always being watched. My father was right, I think.

-"Abner," he said, "I'm going to send Martin. No one will ever suppose that we would trust this money to a child."