Mr. Hardy waved the boys toward Mr. Avery.
“You’ll have to talk to him, boys,” he said. “I haven’t anything to do with it.”
“What are they bothering you about, Hardy?” demanded the superintendent.
“We have been waiting some days for our automobile to be fixed, Mr. Avery,” said Dan, firmly.
“And you’ll wait a few days longer, I guess,” said the man, unpleasantly.
“But we are in a hurry, and the understanding was——”
“With whom did you have any understanding when you brought that car here?” interrupted Avery.
“Mr. Hardy.”
“And if he told you that he could put aside our regular work for outside jobs, he overstepped his bounds.”
“He told us nothing of the kind,” said Dan, quickly. “He only said our car should have precedence over other outside work that might come in.”