"I should say the job will last as long as you make good." "Well, that puts it up to me, then.

I'd want an agreement that I'd be paid a week in advance all the time.

That's to cover the risk of costly breakage and things like that.

At the end of every week I'd be free to quit or go on, and you'd be free to let me out if I didn't suit.

With that understanding I'll try her out--for a week, starting to-morrow morning." He added, by way of clinching the matter, "And that goes." Cliff Lowell blew a thin wreath of smoke and smiled again.