The Story of Sugar

r and returning home that Bob ventured to ment

the matter with y

rred un

t I've decided to. I didn't want to go to your father's refinery to-day or, in fact, at all. You've all been v

pau

e knows, but he may have thought best to keep it to himself; at any rate it has n

wh

weren't the

do you

really liked me; and yet under the circumsta

hat are you t

ken to you abo

not; why

aven't hear

driving at at all," Bob declared, somewhat

as if uncertai

sn't often) I've always spoken of you as Bob. So when I got to Allenville I dropped a line to Father to say I'd arrived safely and in the note I put something about Mr. Carlton. Father lit on it right away; he wished to know who these Carltons were. I replied they were Mr. and Mrs. Carlton, of course-the parents of my roommate. Upon tha

stop

at all

like to tell you

Dad," Bob replied. "If it is I shan't

was Mr. James Carlton and he was in the sugar business he felt that because of family misunderstandings it would be bett

you to break off your friendship

d. He added that he didn't believe your family could have known who

t I spoken of you over and over a

ook hi

y did not know much more about me than mine knew about you. Don't you recall how, when I a

remember th

ather didn't know until that moment who I was, and when he found out he was too decent

t-b

inability to continue. He

ocently carted me home with you for a holiday visit. When your father found out the fact he was too polite to turn me out-of-doors; he just acted the gentleman and made the best of a bad dilemma," explained Van with appalling convincingness. "He even had the goodness t

been as interested in having you with

right. I guess you'll find he's been acting all the tim

bout the boy's visit to the refinery rushed over him. "Dad did say one thing which I did not und

t wa

ed to evade

was noth

eel toward one another. If they have quarreled it is a great pity, but at least we needn't. The only way to straighten ou

a bric

's have it. What was

I suggested it he inquired all over again if I was sure you did not mention it first," Bob re

that

ip was my own idea he said: 'Well, well-it can do

in my guess as to h

ay

I was; this

o," whispered

were at the refinery this morning," Van continued, once more

Mr. Hennessey to tell you

siness plant as if I were an honored guest. It didn't seem as if I ought to go at all. If your father knew who I was he certainly couldn't want me to; and if he didn't it was worse yet. At first I thought the only honorable thing was to go straigh

ed Mr. Hennessey when he started

n. If I didn't know what that formula was I certainly couldn't tell it, and ignoranc

a trump,

ther; he has been straight with me and I wan

ent for an interv

g to do? Certainly we fellows are not going

tly who you are; it is franker and more in the open to have it so. If worse comes to worse we can talk the whole thing out with our families, and tell them how we feel. I am sure both your father and mine are too big to sp

Bob said, flushing with

entured with a dry little smile. "So

ope

stick together, no matter wh

e th

omi

n me," was Bob'