“What?” asked the other.
“Why, ‘Captain Pennimore’!”
“Shut up,” growled Gerald sheepishly. “Besides, maybe I won’t get it,” he added.
“Don’t you worry; you will!”
And a week afterwards he did.
As the car rolled past Oxford on the way around to the gymnasium Ned asked:
“What are you rubbering at, Curt?”
“I was looking at that man on the steps,” responded Kendall. “Did you notice him, Ned? Do you know who he is?”
“That was Payson, you chump!”
“No, I mean the man with him. He looked like someone I—used—to know.”