'But you can see him to-morrow.'
'No, I return in the morning.'
'Well, David, I'll tell Alice you'll be home by nine.'
'Oh, that's it,' I said, laughing. 'It's Alice who makes you leave so early on steamer night.'
'Yes, sir; Alice that is, and Mrs. Augustus Cragin that is to be—when I get a new set of teeth. Good night,' and saying this, he took up his cane, and left the office.
When he was gone, Hallet said to me:
'Do you desire to have David a witness to our conversation?'
'I want him to be a party to it. We can come to no arrangement without his coöperation.'
Hallet asked the bookkeeper in. When he was seated, I said:
'Well, Mr. Hallet, what do you propose to do for your son?'