“I ought to have done so, and am sorry I didn’t.”
“If you hadn’t been the champion idiot you would have found it out in five minutes for yourself.”
It was Dick who said this.
“I knowed he acted mighty qu’ar sometimes and said cur’ous tings dat I didn’t understand, but I neber thought he was out of his head.”
“Sometimes he has as much sense as you—”
“Umph! if he doesn’t have a hundred times as much,” interrupted Dick, “he’s not only crazy but the biggest fool in Christendom. Now I suppose you are ready to turn your back on him and go home with us.”
“Dunno ’bout dat.”
“Well, here comes the Professor, Dick, and you must settle with him,” said Harvey.