“Yes, you have hit the mark,” remarked Dick. “Skip told me not to come back without it.”
“Nice fellow, Skip!”
“What do you mean?”
“That you and he may get out for all I care,” replied Greer; “I have no money for you.”
“Skip told me to say,” added Denton, “that if you didn’t pony up we would do a little business with the banker’s family.”
“Better go and see that member of it who is lying dead at the ‘Cat and Kittens.’ Perhaps you could make an arrangement with him.”
“This is not a joke, Skip, and I mean it.”
“I am very sorry, deuced sorry; I am also sorry that I won’t have the pleasure of your charming society for some little while.”
“Are you going away?” Denton asked.
“Yes; for the good of my health.”