“And confess myself a failure! Acknowledge that I failed in this undertaking? Would you have me do that?”
“Oh, you wouldn’t confess anything of the sort. What were you working for? To go back to Yale, was it not?”
“Sure.”
“Well, I don’t suppose you expected to make so much money that you would be able to return with more than eight thousand dollars in your inside pocket?”
“Hardly.”
“Then what is crawling over you? If you are fool enough to make this silly division, you can go back with money enough to take you through your course in style.”
“And have the memory of what happened in this town last night rankle in my heart! Hardly! I made a speech from the stage last night, in which I said I would play again in this city, and I promised that the audience should be satisfied. I shall keep that promise.”
“Oh, all right! I suppose you’ll be thinking of rewarding the ladies and gentlemen who called here a short time ago and attempted to bulldoze you?”
“I shall see that the members of the company, one and all, are treated fairly. I shall pay them two weeks salary, which will be all they can ask.”
Hodge got up, thrust his hands deep into his pockets, and stared at Frank, with an expression on his face that was little short of disgust.