Homer Bulson expected Worden to make off at once, but the hanger-on did not budge.
"Well, aren't you going?" asked the young man sharply.
"Certainly, sir; soon as I git paid," said Worden coolly.
"Oh, that's it! What do you want?"
"It's worth a quarter, aint it?"
"I suppose so," answered Bulson carelessly, and passed over a silver piece.
"Thanks; I'm off now," said Con Worden, and speedily disappeared.
In a few minutes Homer Bulson followed the man, and it did not take him long to reach Sam Pepper's resort once more.
As he entered he found Pepper in the act of clearing out all the hangers-on, including Worden, who had just received the quarter promised to him.