March laughed again, and his wife said, "It's disgusting."

"It's business," he assented. "Business is business; but I don't say it

isn't disgusting. Lindau had a low opinion of it."

"I think that with all his faults Mr. Dryfoos is a better man than

Lindau," she proclaimed.

"Well, he's certainly able to offer us a better thing in 'Every Other

Week,'" said March.

She knew he was enamoured of the literary finish of his cynicism, and

that at heart he was as humbly and truly grateful as she was for the

good-fortune opening to them.

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