“Because I found you handy before we came here. But now you are becoming a trouble to me. I am beginning to think I’d be better off without you.”
The young Spaniard showed still further amazement.
“You mean I had better go ’way?” he asked.
“I think you had,” answered Chester, plainly making an effort to summon the courage to say so. “I have been thinking about it for some time. You are not much interested in this school, and there is no particular reason why you should stay here.”
“And you I think is great friend to me!” returned Bunol wonderingly.
“Well, I have been a friend to you, haven’t I?”
“You seem so.”
“Seem so! Why, you have lived off me for more than a year! It was a snap for you.”
“But now,” said Miguel, “the snap he end, eh? Now you shake me off, eh? Now you say go, I go, eh? You have done with me? What for?”
“Because you are so hot-headed that you will get me into trouble here.”