"Simmons out?" asked the caller, laconically.
"Yes," Rob replied. "What's up?"
"Oh, nothing. I just wanted to tell him he needn't worry any more about that snake. I suppose he told you about it?" he added with a shrewd grin.
"Yes, he did."
"I knew he would. And he told the Pecks too?"
Rob laughed but said nothing.
"Oh, he told them all right. You needn't pretend he didn't. I knew he would, or I shouldn't have shown him the thing. I meant him to tell them."
"You really wouldn't have put that snake in their room!" said Rob, severely.
"Why not? It wasn't alive."