"...
Cope dwelt darkly on this passage. Arthur was flighty; Arthur was volatile;
Arthur was even fickle, when the mood took him. Some arrangement that
partook more of the hard-and-fast was needed. But there was comfort--of a
kind--in the next passage.
"Though father, at best, will do very little, and though I have just now
little enough of my own, there may be somebody or other among your faculty
or trustees who could find me a niche in the college library or in the
registrar's office. Or have all such posts been snapped up by Johnnys-on-
the-spot? A small weekly stipend would rather help our _menage,--
hein_?"
This definite inquiry (which carried its own answer) seemed to drive one or
two brass tacks with some definiteness. Cope himself was eking out his
small salary with a small allowance from home; next year, with the thesis
accomplished, better pay in some better place. A present partner and pal
ought to be a prop rather than a drag: however welcome his company, he must
bear his share.
"Look about a bit for quarters," Lemoyne went on, drawing toward his
conclusion. "I presume room-rent is little more for two than for one.
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