“Scott wanted to know if you can’t come down and see him to-morrow, Rex,” began Roy, as his brother seated himself on the top step and began fanning himself with his hat. “He told me to tell you to come down on the 5:30 prepared to stay all night.”
Rex’s heart gave a sudden leap. Circumstances seemed to favor his plan. If he only had three dollars more now!
“I guess I’ll go” he said. “Are you going, Roy?”
“No, I’m going to that ratification meeting with Syd to-morrow night, you know. If you don’t go down to Marley, Rex, you’d better come with us. There are to be some fine speeches.”
“Perhaps I will,” responded Rex.
He was turning over in his mind how he was going to get that money. The matter of his getting off to the station was simple enough now. He could even go with Harrington without exciting suspicion. It would be supposed he was bound for Marley.
What a web of deceit he was planning to wind about himself. But he forcibly put this thought out of his mind whenever it obtruded itself. He would have time enough to repent when he came back.
CHAPTER XVII
REX ARRIVES IN NEW YORK
“I say, Roy, can you lend me three dollars?”
Rex had crossed the hall to his brother’s room some time after the family had come up stairs.