“I don’t know,” answered Don, shortly.
“You’ll have to tell something.”
“Yes.”
“Why don’t you do same as I do?”
“How is that?”
“Why, I just write an excuse for myself and take it to old Alden. He never knows the difference.”
“I should think he could tell your writing.”
“Not much! I imitate the old gent’s writing, and I bet it would fool the old gent himself. Then I put his name to it, and everything is all slick.”
“I can’t do that,” said Don.
“I might do it for yer, if I had a sample of your old man’s penmanship. It would be dead easy.”