"That will be enough for a week, after I pay what
I owe."

"Vell, den, ven dot is gone ve tink out someting else,
don't ve? I look it all over last night. It is all right--
no breaks anyvere. And dot tventy-five only last you
a veek! Vy is dot? Vot board do you pay?" His
interest in the visitor was increasing.

"Eight dollars with my meals, whenever my landlady
is on time."

"Eight dollars! Dot voman's robbin' you. Eight
dollars! She is a skin!"

"It was the best I could do," he replied simply.

"Vot does she give you?"

"A small bedroom, my coffee in the morning, and
my dinner--both served in my room on a tray."

"Yes, I see; dot's it. She charge about tree dollars
for de tray. I find you someting better as dot. Kitty
Cleary has a room--you don't know Kitty? Vell, you
ought to begin right avay. Dot's vun voman you don't
ever see again. She vas in here last night, after you
left, looking for her man Mike. She take you for five
dollars a veek, maybe, and you get good tings to eat
and you get Kitty besides, and dot is vorth more as ten