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 work as hard as you can, for the school is depending upon you.”

“Well, is that so. I don’t think I can work any harder than now….”

“What you’re doing now is enough. Only don't forget what I told you the other day.”

“Meaning that one who helps me find a boarding house is dangerous?”

“If you state it so baldly, there is no meaning to it…. But that’s all right,… I believe you understand the spirit of my advice. And if you keep on in the way you’re going to-day…. We have not been blind… we might offer you a better treatment later on if we can manage it.”

“In salary? I don’t care about the salary, though the more the better.”

“And fortunately there is going to be one teacher transferred,… however, I can’t guarantee, of course, until I talk it over with the principal… and we might give you something out of his salary.”