"You're a nice one, you are," said Hickey, starting in immediately, "you arch deceiver. You are a fine friend; I have my opinion of you. 'Handsome girl,' 'a wonder,' 'fine talker,' 'a screamer'—that's the sort of game you try on your friends, is it? Who is she? Oh—ah, yes, a distant relative of the Beauty."
"What's up now?" said the Kid, editor of the "Lawrence," and partner of Turkey's secrets, joys, and debts.
"Hasn't he tried to deceive you yet?" continued Hickey, with an accusing look at Turkey. "No? That's a wonder! What do you think of a fellow who tries to pass off on his friends such a girl as the Beauty's sister?"
"No!" said Butcher Stevens.
"What!" exclaimed Macnooder, laying down his knife with a thud.
"Beauty's sister," said the Egghead, gaping with astonishment.
"Well, why not?" said Turkey, defiantly.
"Listen to that!" continued Hickey. "The brazenness of it!"
The four graduates of the Dickinson, after a moment of stupefied examination of Hickey and Reiter, suddenly burst into roars of laughter that produced a craning of necks and a storm of inquiries from the adjoining tables.