“I am illustrating Prof. Hazlitt’s ethnological work. I think it may take me some months more, working evenings.”
“That won’t interfere with us. I was afraid you might be under an engagement with a rival publication.”
“No, sir. So far as that goes I will confine myself to The Phœnix if——”
“Terms are satisfactory, I suppose.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Then I will agree to pay you twenty-five dollars a week for the first six months. I may be able to do better afterward.”
Chester was dazzled. Twenty-five dollars a week! What would Silas Tripp say to that or his enemy, the bookkeeper.
“I accept,” he answered, promptly.
CHAPTER XXV.