“Twenty dollars a quarter,” said Mr. Harrison; “that I consider reasonable.”
“It is satisfactory to me,” was the cooper's reply, “and, if you have no objections to me as a tenant, I will engage it at once.”
“Far from having any objections, Mr. Crump,” was the courteous reply, “I shall be glad to secure so good a tenant. Will you go over and look at the house?”
“Not now, sir; I am somewhat in haste. When can we move in?”
“To-day, if you like.”
His errand satisfactorily accomplished, the cooper returned home. Meanwhile the landlord had called.
He was a little surprised to find that Mrs. Crump, instead of looking depressed, looked cheerful, rather than otherwise.
“I was not aware you had a child so young,” he remarked, looking at the baby.
“It isn't mine,” said Mrs. Crump, briefly.
“The child of a neighbor, I suppose,” thought Colman.