But I never heard you say you were to be free too.

Stands to reason not! Put my engagements at a Waife's mercy! I, Lorenzo Rugge!--stuff! But I am a just man, and a liberal man, and if you think you ought to have a higher salary, if this ungrateful proceeding is only, as I take it, a strike for wages, I will meet you.

Juliet Araminta does play better than I could have supposed; and I'll conclude an engagement on good terms, as we were to have done if the experiment answered, for three years." Waife shook his head.

"You are very good, Mr.Rugge, but it is not a strike.

My little girl does not like the life at any price; and, since she supports me, I am bound to please her.