"By Jove!" he exclaimed, in apparent astonishment. "My purse is empty. I shall have to make you wait a day or two."
"But I have been waiting already for three weeks," protested Paul.
"I am sorry, but I really can't do anything for you to-night. About the first of next week."
"Why don't you ask your father for some money? He is a rich man, isn't he?"
"Yes, but he would be angry if he knew that I had borrowed money. He is very strict about such matters."
"Then you ought not to have borrowed money of me," said Paul.
"Oh, I'll make it all right in a day or two," said Loammi. "Good-evening, I am in a little of a hurry."
Paul Granger walked away, pretty well assured that he would never get back his dollar.
"I suppose that fellow will be annoying me every day," said Loammi to himself. "Heigh-ho! it's awful inconvenient to be so poor. Pa could make it all right if he'd open his heart and give me five or ten dollars."