“Are you baseball players?” she inquired.
Merry confessed that they were, whereupon she shook her head with an air of regret.
“Then I can’t have anything to do with ye,” she declared.
“What difference does that make, if we are quiet and gentlemanly and pay our bills in advance?” inquired Merriwell.
“It makes a heap of difference. I can’t take ye in.”
“I wish you would be kind enough to give a satisfactory reason for refusing us, madam.”
“I ain’t giving any reasons, and I ain’t talking too much. You can’t stop here.”
“Not if we pay double rates for transients and pay in advance, Mrs. Walker?”
“Not if you pay ten times regler rates and pay in advance,” was the grim answer. “I judge that’s plain enough for you.”
“It’s plain enough, but still we cannot understand your reasons. I wish you would——”