CHAPTER XVI.
AN ADVENTURE IN LONDON.
The next day Sharpley took advantage of Mr. Tarbox's temporary absence from the hotel to hurry Frank off to the London train.
"I hope we have seen the last of that intrusive Yankee," said Sharpley to our hero, when they were fairly installed in the railway carriage.
"I should like to have bidden him good-by," said Frank.
"You can associate with him as much as you like after we have parted company," said Sharpley. "But, for my part, I don't want to see anything of him."
"I wonder what makes him so prejudiced," thought Frank. "It can't be because he is a Yankee, for I am a Yankee, myself, and yet he takes the trouble of looking after me."
Sharpley was not very social. He bought a paper, and spent most of the time in reading.