"Good!" cried Judith.
"We paid him twenty-five," Ellis said.
"Twenty-five?"
"Thousand," he explained.
"So much?" cried Judith.
"Oh," answered Ellis, "it was no great affair for him. He often gets much more."
Judith was speechless.
"And," said Ellis, "there is some one else we ought to fee, if only it were possible. But I scarcely see how I could bring her name before the directors."
"A woman?" she asked, much excited.
"You," he replied briefly, and his mouth shut with its customary firmness. But his eyes noted her exhilaration.