"What; we may not go in the same direction."
"Of course we do. We are going home with them. It's all right. I've put the old man down for a year's subscription."
"And you want to go over there to board it out. Is that it?"
"I hadn't thought of that. But I could do it."
"Does he know that he's a subscriber?"
"Not yet, but I can tell him. Miss Nancy wants us to go."
"Did she say so?"
"Well, now what would be the use of saying so? She could say it as easily as not. And I guess she would have said it if she had thought to. But I know she wants us to go. Come, now, won't you go just to oblige me? Remember, I didn't kick very hard when you killed all my best pieces of news. Let me have a fling now, won't you? You've been having all the fun—marriage and White Caps. Won't you go just to oblige me?"
"Yes, I'll ride with the old man or I'll ride on a rail when you put it that way."
"All right. Here she comes now, and the old man's up there waiting for you."