"What's the matter with you? Ain't any of your folks dead, is there?"
"Oh, I'm all right," Teenie replied. "What made you think there was anything wrong?"
"Why, you look so—kind er queer."
Teenie was silent for a few moments, as if revolving some weighty question in his mind, and then, with the air of one who is determined to have the worst over, said:
"Look here, Carrots! I've allers been a friend of yours, ain't I, even if I have stood in with Skip Jellison once in a while?"
TEENIE BRINGS THE "COMMITTEE'S" WARNING.
"Course you have, Teenie. What's troublin' you?"
"You might think I wasn't actin' jest square, so I wanted to have it straight."