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In other words, said Edward Blake, looking at Rankin again with the same earnest look, you mean that all I will have to do will be to lie about this transaction a little? Eankin turned red and then pale. He was just on the point of replying, when the door opened and Willis came in. chapter{Section 4 CHAPTER II. S WILLIS came into the room he nodded to Rankin and threw a book down on the table. He was going over to his own side of the room, where he was in the habit of swinging Indian clubs, when he seemed to notice something unusual about the looks of his room-mate and stopped abruptly and said, What’s the matter? Edward looked at Rankin and was silent. Rankin kept still a moment and then, more quietly than was natural for him, he said, I’m trying to get Blake to take my paper route. He has scruples about renting it because ‘he thinks he will have to?
Have to lie about it, added Blake as Rankin stopped. Oh pshaw! replied Willis, as he turned towards the wall and took down his clubs. Don’t be so finnicky. It’s nothing but a technicality anyhow. It’s as common as flunking. I owned a route last year and never carried a paper in my life. The fellows all understand it. It’s a mean rule anyway, and the paper has no right to make it. If you’ve got a chance to rent from Rankin, go ahead. It’s the best chance you’ll have. It was not until a long time afterwards that Edward understood fully just how much interest his roommate had in making this little speech. Preston had a dislike for Eankin that he seldom tried to conceal. And yet he had within the year horrowed several sums from him, and was indebted to him now in a way that wo…