“They don’t want to try it. He’s going back to New Mexico pretty soon, and as long as he don’t do any great damage they’ll keep still while he’s here and pray for him to go. He’ll be furious when he hears Joe’s story. There’ll be the dickens to pay!”
“Well, I don’t like to have trouble with anybody,” admitted Frank, with a slight show of regret; “but I couldn’t let that young fellow smash up my scenery. Why do you have him round the theater?”
“He’s a good worker, and the managers are the ones who hire him. I don’t have anything to do with that. You had better go away, Mr. Merriwell.”
“Go away?”
“Yes, before he comes back with Sam.”
“Why?”
“So they will not find you.”
“What? Do you want me to run away? Is that it?”
“It will be a discreet thing for you to do.”
“And cowardly.”