The salary, he said, was of no consequence.

He wrote to Mr.Furlong senior (the father of the episcopal rector and honorary treasurer of the Plutoria University) and stated that he proposed to give his lectures for nothing.

The trustees of the college protested; they urged that the case might set a dangerous precedent which other professors might follow.

While fully admitting that Dr.McTeague's lectures were well worth giving for nothing, they begged him to reconsider his offer.

But he refused; and from that day on, in spite of all offers that he should retire on double his salary, that he should visit the Holy Land, or Syria, or Armenia, where the dreadful massacres of Christians were taking place, Dr.McTeague clung to his post with a tenacity worthy of the best traditions of Scotland.