“That’s right. Janitor service.”
“So what?”
“Well, this is a pretty good job, Donald, and I’ve decided to raise your wages to ten dollars a day while you’re working on it.”
“That’ll be ten dollars,” I said.
“What will?”
“One day.”
“What do you mean?”
“That’s as long as I’ll last. How can I teach anyone physical culture?”
“Now don’t be like that, Donald. I’ve got it all worked out. We’ll make arrangements with Hashita to give you your lessons every afternoon. I told Mr. Ashbury you’d have to get off every afternoon between two and four in order to come up here and make reports. What you’ll really do is go to Hashita and get lessons in jujitsu. Then you’ll give Mr. Ashbury a rehash of those lessons. Don’t let him develop too fast.”
“He won’t,” I said. “What’s more, I won’t.”