"Oh, I guess I didn't fool her all right!" he laughed boisterously. "Oh, no! Guess not!"
"But I want to know what you meant—"
"Why, she said she bet I couldn't fool her, so in a little while, I tole her Auntie Emma was sick and I had to go home, and jus' to fool her I went outdoors and stayed a while; but I didn't know I fooled her so much that she 'phoned—"
"Then what did Nancy mean when she called up and asked for you about half an hour later?"
"Oh, ho!" cried Sube gleefully. "Then I fooled her, too! Did she call me up, honest? You see I was outdoors again and I didn't know it!"
"You must not fool so much, my boy. You'll get the reputation of being very untruthful—"
"Get it!" interjected Mr. Cane. "Get it! If he could get any more of a repu—"
"Samuel!" cried Mrs. Cane in a voice she seldom found it necessary to use. And as her husband subsided she turned again to Sube. "Nancy wanted you to call her up as soon as you came in," she said.
"Oh, that's all right," Sube explained. "She's seen me since then."
"They why do you suppose she called again about five minutes before you came?" asked his mother.