“Thank you, sir, but I’ve made an engagement, and can’t break it.”
“How long are you going to stay here?”
“If you’ve a spare room, I’ll stay over till to-morrow.”
“All right. Go into the office, and they’ll give you one.”
“I say, Tony,” said Sam, after the landlord had gone, “you’re a better fellow than I thought you were. I thought you’d take my place when it was offered you.”
“You see you were mistaken, Sam. I’ll see you again.”
Tony went into the hotel—went up to a small chamber that had been assigned him, changed his clothes for a handsome suit in his bundle, took a handsome gold watch and chain from his pocket and displayed them on his vest, and then came down again.
As he entered the yard again, Sam stared in amazement.
It can’t be you, Tony!” he said. “Where’d you get them clothes? and that watch?”
“I came by them honestly, Sam.”