"Are you really afraid of that?" asked Frank, in rather a sarcastic tone.
"Yes; he's a bad fellow, and you'll find it out sooner or later."
"I don't agree with you; I think Oliver a fine, manly fellow."
"Oh, I know you have always stuck up for him!" said Roland, annoyed. "You are deceived—that is all."
"Carrie is deceived, too, then," said Frank, knowing that this would tease Roland. "She has just as high an opinion of Oliver as I have."
"She'll find him out sometime," said Roland, and walked moodily away.
Reaching home, he told his father the news.
"Oliver gone to Chicago!" repeated Mr. Kenyon, with evident pleasure. "I am glad of it. I hope he'll never come back to annoy us."
"I hope so, too."
"But I am afraid he will get out of money and write for help."