"'What will you pay?' he asked, suddenly, turning to me. I told him.
" 'It is not much,' he observed, in a surly voice.
" 'I am not urging you to come,' I replied, quietly. 'There is the proposition; take it or leave it.'
"'I will let you know in the morning,' said he, and left us with no salutation.
"When he had gone Meyers turned to me with a weak and somewhat frightened smile.
"'I think that he will go,' said he. 'He is fond of money. Of course' he smiled in a way that made me want to kick him 'you understand—the—eh—my position'
" 'No'—I answered a bit brutally, I fear—'I don't. If you care enough about him to educate him as you appear to have done, why do you want to desert him?'
"He shrank as if I had struck him, and for a moment seemed on the verge of collapse, then recovered and clapped his hands feebly. A yellow girl, in an unclean pinafore which
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