“I forgot to ask for the bill,” said Julius.
“Where’d you sleep?”
“Oh, I slept in a bathing house, on the beach. It belonged to the hotel.”
“How’d you like it?”
“Pretty good, only the tide came up so high that it poured into the bathing house, and gave me a wetting.”{22}
“Did you get anything to do?”
“I made a few stamps by blackin’ boots, but the black-boots in the hotel said he’d bounce me for interferin’ with his business. So I thought I’d come back to the city. I didn’t mind much, for there wasn’t much goin’ on in the daytime.”
“Do you know how long we’ll be travelin’?”
“Mr. O’Connor told me it would take us two days and nights, and perhaps more. He says it’s more’n a thousand miles.”
“Suppose’n we don’t like it, and want to come back?”