I remember how annoyed he was once when I
caught him in a mistake in geography."
"I shall not be annoyed at all when you find me out in a mistake,
for I don't pretend to be very learned."
"Then I think we'll get along," said Walter, favorably impressed by
the usher's modesty.
"I suppose if I didn't know anything we should get along even
better," said Mr. Crabb, amused.
"Well, perhaps that might be carrying things too far!" Walter
admitted.
In the afternoon Hector and Walter spent two hours at the gymnasium
in Twenty-eighth Street, and walked leisurely home after a healthful
amount of exercise.
For some reason, which he could not himself explain, Hector said
nothing to Walter about his rescue of the little girl on Madison
Avenue, though he heard of it at the gymnasium.
One of the boys, Henry Carroll, said to Walter: "There was a little
girl came near being run over on Madison Avenue this noon!"
"Did you see it?"
"No, but I heard of it."
"Who was the little girl?"
"Grace Newman.
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