I think we had best talk no more of employment." "Suppose I advance the amount in case he does, letting you work out the debt.

I could keep, say, two dollars out of each day's five until you owed nothing." "That would be agreeable to me, senor.

But what if he then refuses to sell me goods from his store ?" "You can buy at the commissary," Lee said.

"Why should you lose five dollars a day because of Menocal's bad feeling for me?
You remain idle--but does he pay you, or feed you?
And the wages I offer you, and the doctor's services, and the other accommodations, I also offer to other Mexicans who will work.

You may tell them so.