The man called Jensen looked curiously at Patsy for a moment, and then asked:
“Do you mean it?”
“Sure.”
“You would take the place?”
“Try me.”
“By George! What a go. I’ll try it. Ever had any experience that way?”
“I was on the Gay Flirt one season.”
“Good.”
He called Moore aside and whispered to him a while. Moore came to Patsy, saying in an off-hand way:
“My friend backs you for the place. Wages twenty dollars a month and board. Report on board the Derelict off Twenty-third Street, at nine to-morrow morning.”