“Got to is a strong word, Nelson.”
“I know it, and I mean it. I’m broke I tell you.”
“Then get it from someone else. I haven’t any.”
“Why, what have you been doing here all this while, I’d like to know?” and the man’s voice took on a whine.
“I haven’t been picking up gold dollars, if that’s what you mean, Nelson. I’ve been bucking down and studying hard. It is isn’t as easy at Randall as it was at Harkness.”
“What’d you come here for then?”
“Because athletics are better managed. Now look here. You know the games won’t take place for some time yet, and I can’t get any cash until they’re run off. I have just enough to get along on as it is, but if things go right I’ll have plenty later on.”
“Backing yourself, I suppose?”
“Hush! You can’t tell who may hear you. I tell you it was a big risk for you to come here to-day. I wish you hadn’t. You had better go away now. Go out this way, where no one will notice you.”