"Wall," said Strout, looking at his watch, "I kin spare you half an hour, if it will be as great an accommodation to yer as yer seem to think it will."
And he followed Quincy upstairs to the latter's room.
CHAPTER XXX.
A SETTLEMENT.
When they entered the room Quincy motioned Strout to a chair, which he took. He then closed the door and, taking a cigar case from his pocket, offered a cigar to Strout, which the latter refused. Quincy then lighted a cigar and, throwing himself into an armchair in a comfortable position, looked straight at the Professor, who returned his gaze defiantly, and said:
"Mr. Strout, there is an open account of some two month's standing between us, and I have asked you to come up here to-day, because I think it is time for a settlement"
"I don't owe you nuthin'," said Strout, doggedly.
"I think you owe me better treatment than you have given me the past two months," remarked Quincy, "but we'll settle that point later."