“Yes, but it costs seven dollars just the same as a big word,” observed Caroline.
“But it doesn’t sound right without it,” argued the boy; “we have got to leave it in. What comes after that?”
Caroline in turn took up the note and read,
“‘If you don’t, I’ll come anyhow, that’s all.’”
“You might leave out ‘that’s all,’” said Wilfred.
“No, don’t leave that out. It’s very important. It doesn’t seem to be so important, but it is. It shows—well—it shows that that’s all there is about it. That one thing might convince him.”
“Yes, but we’ve got to leave out something.”
“Not that, though. Perhaps there is something else. ‘The seventeen call is out’—that’s got to stay.”
“Yes,” said Wilfred.
“‘The sixteen comes next.’ That’s just got to stay.”