"And with the four years' interest due, I believe it covers the value of the property now, doesn't it?" She had taken out another pair of spectacles and adjusted them upon her upturned nose.
"About," he added, dazed.
"We shall be glad to retain your services. That is what I am here for this afternoon, to make arrangements with you, if possible."
Carter raised his hand, scratched his chin through his beard, squinted one eye, and took sight along the barrel of his personal interest at Susan.
"We are prepared to bear all the expense of publication and offer you a salary of one hundred dollars a month to conduct the paper; but of course we should expect to control the policy of it absolutely. We purpose to make it the organ of the Woman's Suffrage Movement here. I should myself dictate most of the editorials."
"You should, Madam?" he exclaimed.
"Yes."
"And where would I come in?"
"Oh, we should want you to do the work, get up advertisements, write special articles along such educational lines for the movement as we should suggest. You would 'come in' a great deal, Mr. Carter. You would be the busiest man in Jordantown."
"But, good Lord—beg pardon! You want me to become a woman suffragist, Madam—and I'm a man!"