3:30 P.M.
`` It will be one dollar and twenty-five cents , Mrs. Soda , '' apologized the professor . `` I have to make that charge as it is so inconvenient to work on them when they are still alive . '' Having collected his fee , the professor and Mag Nesia departed , amid the ever rising blessings of the Soda family . * * * * * At 3:30 P.M. Mag Nesia sought her employer , who was asleep in the sitting room . `` Marse Paul , a gentleman to see you . '' The professor awoke and had her send the man in . The man entered hurriedly , hat in hand .