"You'd better ride with me, Jack," his sister said. "The car has
more room."
"Walter can come with us," suggested Jack. "I've been sort of
leaning on him in the train, and it eases me. So if--"
"Of course!" interrupted Cora quickly, and Walter, hearing his name
spoken, came hurrying up, from where he had stood joking and talking
with the Robinson twins at their car.
"On the job, Jack, old man!" he exclaimed. "Want me to hold your
hand some more?"
"Wrenched my side a little at football," Jack explained to his
sister. "It sort of eases it to lean against some one. The porter
wanted to get me a pillow, but I'm not an old lady yet--not with Wally
around."
"Harry, think you'll be safe with two of them?" asked Walter, as he
nodded at Bess and Belle.
"Oh, sure," he answered with a laugh. "If they promise not to rock
the boat."
"Perhaps he thinks we can't drive?" suggested Belle, mockingly.
"Far be it from me to so assume!" said Harry, bowing with his hand on
his right side, and then quickly transferring it, after the manner of
some stage comedian. "I'd go anywhere with you!" he affirmed.
"Don't be rash!" called Jack, who had taken his place in the tonneau
of Cora's car. "Come on, Walter. Leave him to his own destruction.
But, I say, Cora, what's this about some new girl? Has a pretty
arrival struck town? If there has, I'm glad I came home.
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