The idea of buying a mill had only that instant come to him. So of course he did not know what kind of mill it was.
He looked at Agnes. She was sound asleep, leaning on Thane, who had his arm around her. Again he looked at her. She was in the same position, but her eyes were wide open, staring straight ahead.
XXI
The flying triangle reached Wilkes-Barre for breakfast.
While waiting for Agnes, John and Thane transacted an important piece of business.
“Look here,” said John.
He sat at a desk in the office and wrote rapidly on a sheet of hotel paper as follows:
MEMORANDUM OF CONTRACT
In consideration of one month’s wages paid in hand on the signing of this paper, Alexander Thane agrees to give his skill and services exclusively to the North American Manufacturing Company, Ltd., (John Breakspeare, agent), for a period of two years, and the North American Manufacturing Company, Ltd., agrees to pay Alexander Thane not less that five thousand dollars a year, plus a ten per cent. share in the profits.