To this suggestion, our hero’s chums agreed, and quickly they betook themselves to the hall in which the room of the Psi Mus was located.
“You’ve got a nerve to rap at our door. Didn’t we tell you to wait and meet us in the hall?” demanded the boy who answered the summons.
“That’s all right. We’ve found out something you people ought to know, so you needn’t close the door in our faces,” retorted Jerry.
The statement that they had important information to impart had been heard by the leaders of the two societies who were holding the consultation, and quickly they called to them to enter.
“Well, what is it that’s so important?” demanded Dawson.
“We went down to see if Tony was at home,” began Paul, when he was interrupted by one of the others exclaiming:
“Of course he wasn’t. This is his day to go to Lumberport on school business for Princy.”
“I know that,” retorted Paul, “but we thought perhaps he might not have started yet. When we got there, Mrs. Farelli asked us if we’d come to pay Tony some money, for if we had, he wanted us to leave it at Rector’s, in Lumberport, because Tony won’t be home for a couple of days.”
“That’s just Tony’s way of trying to collect his debts quickly,” commented one of the boys.
“Then why shouldn’t he have told his wife to take it,” asked Harry.