“Did you see that man from Minneapolis and Chester?”

“Yes.”

“Where did they go?”

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?” frowned Mullins. “And why not, I should like to know?”

“Because I went to Palmer’s Theater.”

“So that is the way you spent the quarter I gave you?” exclaimed the bookkeeper, indignantly.

“I couldn’t go to Palmer’s on that.”

“Did you go with them?” asked Mullins, hopefully.

“No, but Mr. Perkins gave me money to go.”