“That is an agent,” he said; “he proposes that I shall lecture through the States. I—don’t know,” as if pondering the thing.
“The things you say should be said to many,” remarked Latimer.
“The more the better,” said Baird, reflectively; “I know that—the more the better.”
They sat and talked the matter over at length. The objections to it were neither numerous nor serious.
“And I want to say these things,” said Baird, a little feverishly. “I want to say them again and again.”
Before they parted for the night it was decided that he should accede to the proposal, and that Latimer should arrange to be his companion.
“It is the lecture ‘Repentance,’ he tells me, is most in demand,” Baird said, as he walked to the door, with a hand in Latimer’s.