“I’d like to know how.”
“If you’ll try you’ll soon learn.”
“Will you show me how?” asked Carlton eagerly.
“I’ll show you all I know, but that isn’t much.”
“Yes, it is! I know it is! I’m coming over to have you show me. I’d like to find out——”
“Come whenever you want to,” said Dan as he smiled and at once departed from the hall. As he walked to his room he was thinking of what the little fellow had said. He wanted to run away from his troubles. “That’s just like me,” said Dan to himself. “I haven’t learned to do what a lot of the fellows here have, and just because it’s hard for me to learn I wanted to play the baby act too. Well, I guess Carlton and I are in the same boat. We’ll have to learn how to paddle or just be carried down stream. That’s all there is to it.”
“Where have you been?” asked Walter as Dan entered the room.
“Oh, I went over to his room with that Carlton Hall. He’s a little fellow and a new boy—green in some ways as I am,” Dan added.
“What’s the matter with him?”