"Yas."
"Yaw."
"And you——"
"We managed to scrape together enough money to git here, an' we ketched a train that took us here all right. Jest got to this air howtel an' faound yeou was over to the theater. We was goin' right over there."
"But now you haf come ofer us to id safed us der droubles," said the Dutch boy.
Frank sat down on a chair and stared at them some seconds.
"Well," he murmured, "I thought the company would break up, but this is sooner than I expected. What's the matter?"
"Haley, the manager, skipped out."
"Haley did?"