“Then you will do better than most fellows,” smiled June; “for they do not understand girls at all. Hal Darrell——”
Then she paused suddenly, for Hal himself had ascended the stairs and stopped, staring at them. His face was rather pale, and there was a glitter in his dark eyes.
“Oh, Mr. Darrell!” exclaimed June. “I have been looking for you.”
“Have you?” said Hal, his eyes on Dick.
“Yes. Brother wants to see you. He’s in room 37. Please go right up.”
Hal stood still and stared at Dick a moment longer, after which he mounted the stairs to the second story and disappeared.
CHAPTER VI—A DOUBTFUL MATTER
Chester and June Arlington remained in Hudsonville that night and the next day. On Monday they came back to Fardale, but Chester did not return to the academy. He declined to go to the house where June had been stopping, but ordered the best suite of rooms in the Fardale Hotel, and there he went comfortably to bed.
Perhaps it was a mistake to say he went comfortably to bed, for he was far from comfortable, as his back had been hurt badly, although the Hudsonville doctors consoled him with the assurance that, with rest and proper treatment, he would recover without any permanent injury.
June remained at the hotel to care for him as best she could, and Mrs. Arlington was notified of his misfortune, with the result that she lost no time in hastening to the side of her idolized son.