"Let him become manager?"
"Sure. He won't last long—only till his boodle is used up. Then we'll get rid of him."
"Will Havener agree?"
"Don't know. He's a fool if he doesn't."
"In case we strike poor business," Merriwell went on, "I shall expect the members to accept a percentage of their salaries for the time, with the understanding that whatever is held back will be paid as soon as business picks up enough to enable me to do so."
Lawrence was straight and stiff in his chair.
"We might as well go along on the same old plan," he exclaimed. "Merriwell is looking for everything to favor him. What good will it do us to run that way?"
"Now you are dissatisfied because he isn't fool enough to go into this thing blind!" cried Cassie Lee. "His idea is all right."
"All right for him, but he can claim any time that he is not making enough to pay our full salaries."
"I will agree to show up the accounts at the end of each week to each and every member of the company," said Frank. "You shall see if I am using you square."