Part 34 (1/2)

”You'll find him out on the porch, I think, Mr Dawley,” answered the clerk

”Oh, thank you, I'h he alking on eggs young Mr Dawley turned, going toward the porch door

”Oh, good , Dalton, dear fellow,” cried the fair-haired dandy, in the sa up and down the porch utterly ignoring Hank butts

”Goodmore than a little bored by the interruption

”Noho and what, in the game, is Dalton's Elizabeth-boy friend?”

wondered Hank, eying the latest arrival

”Have a cigarette, Dawley?” asked Dalton, in a voice al of you, indeed,” declared Dawley, helping hi it

”Look out the tobacco doesn't make you sick, babe,” muttered Hank butts under his breath

”Now,here last evening----” began the soft-voiced one, but the other broke in on him with:

”If you don't mind, Dawley, I want to think a bit now”

”Oh, that will be quite all right, I areed the soft-voiced one ”Then I'll just stroll down the street a bit and be back in time to breakfast with you”

Dalton nodded and the fair-haired fashi+on plate stepped down into the path and strolled away

”All of which tells us,” reflected Hank, ”that our friend Dalton has been here at least since yesterday, and that he and the Elizabeth-boy dude are not very well acquainted”

butts looked up, al into the boy's face

”I suppose you're out here to watch

”If I arow confidential about it, would you?” asked Hank, grinning into the other's face

”Oh, I don't want any of your iive you any, or anything else belonging to me,” clicked Hank butts, decisively

”If you're standing out here to watchto tell you that I a the hotel for the present”

”That, or any other infor to offer me, will be treated in the utmost confidence, I assure you,” promised Hank

”Don't be too frolicsome withastonished ”Why, I didn't say anything until you spoke to me”