Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 155: what you’re looking at

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1406 GUY HAMMERSLEY. lor and dining-room. Guy and your brother can occupy one bedroom, where we can have a cot for tiarold, and you and I can take the other. How do you like the arrangement ?” ‘« First class,” exclaimed Ward. ‘*‘ Reminds me of that trick in cards where the landlady has seven rooms and eight travelers to provide for. But wecan get along in the way Mrs. Hammersley has mapped out admirably unless company insists on staying till it is time to set the table for dinner, when of course they'll see it, and we'll have to ask ’em to stay when perhaps wecan'tafford it. But now we've got our specification as tospace, let Guy here, the young real estate king, tell us how much we ought to pay for it.” ‘* Well, for a furnished flat of that size, in anything that isn’t a tenement house, we'll have to give not less than twenty-five dollars a month, and more likely it will be thirty or thirty-five. Any way, you can reckon on my forty dollars covering that.” ‘¢ But we're not going to let you pay all the rent,” cried Ruth and Ward in a breath. ‘‘ It wouldn’t be fair.” ‘* Certainly it would,” replied Guy. ‘‘ I don’t see why not, if the rest of you have to pay for the pro- visions, coal, washing and gas. You'll find that these will mount up to more than forty a month rather than less.” Even Ward looked a little blank on hearing this. Where was the other forty to come from, he could not help wondering ? ‘* Now we must take an account of assets, do they EGomichbooks (E(o) m —_*)