“I—I can’t tell you—yet,” he said brokenly.
“Then I can’t go with you to the dance,” she replied in a low voice, and she turned and left the room, going back to the den she shared with Ruth and Madge, while Sid went out the front door, and across the campus; nor would he stay, though Phil and Tom called to him, but walked off, black despair in his heart.
[CHAPTER XXIII]
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
Tom and Phil went to the Junior dance, taking Madge and Ruth, and, though they enjoyed it thoroughly, there was a little sorrow in the hearts of the two lads that Sid was not there to share the pleasure with them.
“I wonder why he didn’t come?” asked Phil of Ruth, as the four stood chatting about his absence, over an ice, during an intermission.
“You ought to be able to guess,” replied his sister.
“Why?” persisted Phil.