“But if I am not here?”
“I will write it down, and give it to the doctor.”
“That will do,” said Tony. “I know he will keep it for me. Now, good-by.”
“Are you going?”
“Yes, I have my own way to make in the world. I can’t live on you any longer.”
“To be sure not,” said Ben. “I am too poor to feed two persons, and you have a very large appetite.”
“Yes,” said Tony, laughing, “I believe I have a healthy appetite. I’m growing, you know.”
“It must be that. What is your name?”
“That is more than I know. I have always been called Tony, or Tony the Tramp. Rudolph’s last name is Rugg, and he pretends that I am his son.”
“You are not his son. He never had any son.”