“Take off your coat and make yourself at home,” said Eddy.
“No,” Ross objected. “I can’t stay to-night. Didn’t bring my things along.”
“Oh, didn’t you?” said Eddy. “Why not?”
“Because I didn’t come prepared to stay.”
“What did you come for?” asked Eddy.
Now, this might be mere idle curiosity, and Ross decided to accept it as that.
“No,” he said, slowly. “I’ll go back to the city and get my things.”
“It’s raining too hard,” Eddy declared. “It wouldn’t be healthy for you to go out just now, shover.[Pg 449]”
This was a little too much for Ross to ignore.
“Just the same,” he insisted, “I’m going now.”