“How about a steak at Toni’s, Dad?”
“Oh, I don’t feel like eating at this late hour,” Mr. Parker declined.
“That’s not the idea, Dad. I’m suggesting a raw steak for that left eye of yours. By morning it will be swollen shut.”
“It is quite a shiner,” the editor agreed, gazing at his reflection in the car mirror. “But the story was well worth the cost.”
“Thanks to whom?” Penny asked mischievously.
“If I say thanks to you, Penny, you will be expecting an increase in your allowance or something of the sort.”
“Maybe I’ll ask for it anyhow,” Penny chuckled. “And don’t forget that you owe me a hundred dollars for getting that crack-pot, Ben Bowman, out of your hair!”
“So I do,” Mr. Parker conceded with a laugh. “That also will be worth the price.”
Transcriber’s Note
- Typographical errors were corrected without comment.
- Replaced the list of books in the series by the complete list, as in the final book, “The Cry at Midnight”.