Let me manage. I know the ropes and it
helps me at the office to bring in hot features. They might give you fifty
for it, too."
And I actually did get $50 for digging out of the text books an essay on
Rats as Disseminators of Bubonic Plague; they only used a little of it,
but the pictures and the signature and the nonsense about me as a
scientist were the real thing, Cadge said.
The money, the money, the money was the real thing to me! It has given me
a breathing spell--. that and the hundred for signing a patent medicine
testimonial; but I had to sacrifice more than half I got from both sources
to pacify greedy creditors. And a month between remittances, and so little
when they come! Father _can't_ refuse to mortgage; why doesn't he
write to me?
The day I took the article to Cadge I had a long talk with her and with
Pros. Reid, who spends at the eyrie every hour he can spare. One must have
some society or go crazy, though perhaps they aren't exactly what I'd
choose if my kingdom had opened to me.
Pros. has shrewd eyes that inspire confidence--gray eyes with the tired
night work look in them.
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