“Ye-es, I suppose I was, in a way. But I didn’t think of it then, honest. I don’t do it any more. Now when I want extra money I write and tell the truth.”
“What do you say?” asked Rodney.
“I tell them that Pete has borrowed all I had!”
“What do you think of that?” asked Pete indignantly. “I only owe you seventy-five cents. And I’ll pay you the first money I get, you fresh kid!”
“Please don’t Pete!” begged Tad. “If you do, I’ll have to think up something else.”
“Just lend it to me instead,” suggested Tom helpfully. “I don’t mind.”
“That wouldn’t be lending,” replied Tad. “That would be giving it.”
That letter of Rodney’s didn’t get written until evening.