“A brick! You’re a jolly good fellow to give me such a present.”
“You’re quite welcome, Dick,” said Frank, kindly. “I’m better off than you are, and I can spare the clothes just as well as not. You must have a new hat though. But that we can get when we go out. The old clothes you can make into a bundle.”
“Wait a minute till I get my handkercher,” and Dick pulled from the pocket of the pants a dirty rag, which might have been white once, though it did not look like it, and had apparently once formed a part of a sheet or shirt.
“You mustn’t carry that,” said Frank.
“But I’ve got a cold,” said Dick.
“Oh, I don’t mean you to go without a handkerchief. I’ll give you one.”
Frank opened his trunk and pulled out two, which he gave to Dick.
“I wonder if I aint dreamin’,” said Dick, once more surveying himself doubtfully in the glass. “I’m afraid I’m dreamin’, and shall wake up in a barrel, as I did night afore last.”
“Shall I pinch you so you can wake here?” asked Frank, playfully.
“Yes,” said Dick, seriously, “I wish you would.”