Just then Wilkins entered the room. Wilkins and Ben Platt were Hector’s two roommates.
“Hello, Wilkins! I’m glad you’ve come just as you have.”
“What for, Platt? Do you want to borrow some money?”
“No; there is more money in this room now than there has been for a long time.”
“What do you mean? The governor hasn’t sent you a remittance, has he?”
“No.”
“Expound your meaning, then, most learned and mysterious chum.”
“I will. Within five minutes Jim Smith has been here and left a wallet of money.”
“Jim been here? I met him in the corridor.”
“I warrant he didn’t say he had been here.”