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and the kitchen staff takes care of the cooking and cleanup."


Inwardly Lee squirmed, feeling somehow trapped, vaguely desperate. "ButтАФhow
long?"


"I can write the contract for two months, with extensions as necessary. And we pay
transportation, of course, including freight for belongings up to fifteen hundred
pounds."


"Two months? I'm sure it won't take that long. One at most."


"Two months. We'll want you there to debug it, and groove our people in on it. And
we are, after all, an international operation, so there will be some travel. Two months,
with extensions as necessary. Then, if you like us and we like you, we may want your
expertise on other things.
"Your rates are reasonable enough for short-term jobs of the sort you usually do, but
because of the length of the contract, we'll want to pay you by the month. We were
thinking in terms of sixty-five hundred dollars, with credit transfers on the fifteenth
and thirtieth."


He stopped, arms folded now, but the grin was still there. Again she looked at Ben,
interested in spite of herself. At Mertens, Loftus, and Hurst, her salary had reached
$7,500 a month, but in the fourteen months since she'd quit, she hadn't come close to
that. She'd topped $3,000 only three times. In the month previous she'd grossed just
$375, and that by cutting her rate drastically. She was good at what she did, the best,
but in times like these, businesses weren't hiring consultants or anyone else. And
effective promotion would cost more than she could borrow. Especially now, with
their credit rating down the drain.


Ben spoke then, his tone diffident, but the words to the point. "You said you were
interested in hiring me, too. What would I be doing?"


"You'll be in our accounting office, helping set up procedures that will work
efficiently in your wife's new system."


Ben gestured. "Have a seat, Mr. Lu."


They sat. My God, Lee thought, I never asked him to sit down! He's offering us jobs,
and I never asked him to sit down!