“Yes,” answered Joe. “I think so.”
“You say the business pays well?”
“Yes; it satisfies me.”
“Are you alone? Have you no partner?”
“You could do better with one. Suppose you take me into business with you?”
Joe was considerably surprised at this proposition from a man who had swindled him.
“How much capital can you furnish?” he asked.
“I haven’t got any money. I’m dead broke,” said Hogan, “but I can give my services. I can wait on the table. I’ll do that, and you can give me my board and one-third of the profits. Come, now, that’s a good offer. What do you say?”
Joe thought it best to be candid.
“I don’t want any partner, Mr. Hogan,” he said; “and I may as well tell you, I don’t think I should care to be associated with you if I did.”