He felt that there was room in the
world for Jim and himself, too.
"Are you going to work?" asked Jim.
"I hope so."
"Got anything in view?"
"Not exactly.'"
"It would be a good thing if we could get into the same place."
"Do you say that because we have always agreed so well?" asked
Hector, amused.
"We may be better friends in future," said Jim, with a grin.
Hector was judiciously silent.
"Where are you staying?"
"Up on Forty-second Street."
"That's a good way uptown, isn't it?"
"Yes, pretty far up."
"Are you boarding?"
"No; I am visiting some friends."
"Couldn't you get me in there as one of your school friends?"
This question indicated such an amount of assurance on the part of
his old enemy that at first Hector did not know how to reply in
fitting terms.
"I couldn't take such a liberty with my friends," he said. "Besides,
it doesn't strike me that we were on very intimate terms."
But Jim was not sensitive to a rebuff.
"The fact is," he continued, "I haven't got much money, and it would
be very convenient to visit somebody.
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