Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Prince & the Pauper
I believe the answer is A because he says "I was fearful of losing a bargain."
Answer:
I asked my good friend Simon Wheeler about a friend of mine who wrote to me from the east that wanted to know something. I also asked him something my friend's friend Leonidas W. Smiley wanted to know, since he asked me to do so.
Explanation:
Make it sound something you would say. Not many people talk like this, so write as if you were talking a normal conversation with your friend.