"You'd better come over here at once.

I can promise you that it's something interesting." "I---I don't believe I can come over to-day," Fred answered hesitatingly.
"The weather is too hot." "Mebbe the weather will get hotter, if you don't come," Hiram Driggs responded calmly.
"That's a joke, eh ?" queried Fred.

"Ha, ha, ha!" "Depends upon the feller's sense of humor," Driggs declared.
"Well, you're coming over, aren't you ?" "Ye-es, I'll come," Fred assented falteringly, for his guilty conscience made a coward of him.

"You're a fine fellow, Mr.Driggs, and I'm glad to oblige anyone like you.

I'll be right over." "Thanks, ever so much, for the compliment," drawled Driggs in his most genial tone.