Read it through once

I do not know whether I should have accepted the situation if I had believed the man to be an honest fool; but finding him to be an artful one, and smelling a trap somewhere, I made my escape and saved my pocket-money. It was well I did, too; for he afterwards came straight down on a gentleman who had the misfortune to be his neighbour, and who believed him to be an honest man, and took him at his word.