24/24 I guess you do enough work for him. What's he paying you, Daniel ?" "Eighteen hundred since he got the paper-mill receivership." She made no comment, but received the intelligence in silence. He knew from the characteristic quick movement of her eyelids that she was pondering the equity of this carefully; and his loyalty to Bassett asserting itself, he added, defensively:-- "It's more than I could begin to make any other way; and he's really generous about my time--he's made it plain that he wants me to keep up my reading." "They don't read much after they're admitted, do they? I don't want to leave Sylvia alone up there, poor little girl. I'll let you know when to come back.". |