“You will agree to be manager, at a fixed salary?” said James hurriedly and huskily, his fine fingers slowly rubbing each other, along the sides.
“Why yes, willingly, if you’ll give me the option of becoming your partner upon terms of mutual agreement, later on.”
James did not quite like this.
“What terms are you thinking of?” he asked.
“Well, it doesn’t matter for the moment. Suppose for the moment I enter an engagement as your manager, at a salary, let us say, of—of what, do you think?”
“So much a week?” said James pointedly.
“Hadn’t we better make it monthly?”
The two men looked at one another.
“With a month’s notice on either hand?” continued Mr. May.
“How much?” said James, avaricious.