parley with a plump refusal to go to New York on any terms. His daughter Bella was lying in wait for him in the hall, and she th

g the Transcript through her first pair of eye-glasses: it was agreed in the family that she looked distinguished in them, or, at any rate, cultivated. She took them o

ch explained to his wife's glance, "and then I walked. I sup

voluble pertness which her brother had often advised her parents t

As soon as possible his wife told the children they m

ed, with a specious brigh

s on yo

know there

so when you came

ys kiss you w

sn't necessary any more.

thout the symbolism now." He stopped,

usiness? Have they

n to supplant me, or whether they ever did. But I wasn't

e name, and March smiled, too. "W

k with you. Then

t got to do w

g away about that scheme of his again. H

t sh

n features with the intuitive sense of affairs which m

e. The only thing I didn't like about Mr. Fulkerson was his alwa

s that Fulkerson has had his eye on me ever since we met that night on the Quebec boat. I opened up pretty freely to him, as you do to a ma

sil," his wife put in. "I should have been will

n it in the interest of the contributors?' and that set him to thinking, and he thought out his plan of a periodical which should pay authors and artists a low price outright for their work and give them a chance of the profits in the way of a percentage. After all, it isn

ok a little time to realize the fact, while she star

l to me; that I invented th

nse of the honor itself and the value of the opportunity. "It's a very high compliment to you, Basil-a very high compliment. And you could give up this wretched insurance business that you've always hated so, and that's making you so unhappy now that you think they're going to

of the sensation he meant to give her. "If I'll make striking phr

his pockets, and watched his wife's face, luminous with the

escape, what a triumph over all those hateful insurance people! Oh, Basil, I'm afraid he'll change his mind! You ought to have accepted on the spot. You mig

nditional. She meant that he should do what she said, if it were ent

rprise went wrong?" h

asn't he made a succe

ays s

cceed in this, too. He wouldn't undertake it if he

t such a thing going; and even i

at the word

all a financial backer. He dropped

gether. With our stocks we have two thousand a year, anyway, and we could pinch through on that till you got into some other business afterward, especially if we'd saved something out of your salary while it lasted. Basil, I w

give me

Mr. Fulkerson, so that he'll find the despatch waiting for him when he gets to New