"Who is that soldier?" asked Jardin. "Isn't he just an enlisted man?"
"That's all," said Frank. "He is the Major's orderly."
"I don't like his looks," said Jardin.
"Neither do I," agreed Frank. "But you had better not tell Bill that. He is crazy over Lee."
"Every man to his taste!" Jardin said with a sneer.
CHAPTER V
About a week later, Bill, accompanied by Lee, drove the Swallow over to the Aviation Field. They found Horace Jardin staying there at Frank's quarters, as the houses are called on all army posts. Mr. Jardin had gone down into the Burkburnett Oil Fields and Frank had invited the boy to come and stay with him. Mrs. Anderson, a weak and idle person, was flattered to have the young millionaire as her guest and revelled as Frank did in his glowing yarns of everything concerning the Jardins. Horace treated Mrs. Anderson and the Major with all the politeness he could muster.
It was always his policy to be agreeable to other fellows' parents. It made things easier all around to have what he privately and rudely called "the old folks" think he was a fine boy, and he found that they always "fell for it" when he paid them a little attention.
So he cleverly kept silence whenever the Major was around, only asking questions that he knew would please him to answer and enlarge upon.