The psaltery stick was famous.
Moreover, Brian--Brian, mind you, who talked of truth with hair-splitting piety--Brian had that very day at noon forced his father to the telling of a lie.
"But he wasn't here," said Whitaker, mystified.

"He lunched with me." "The fact remains," insisted Kenny with dignity.

"I myself told Garry Rittenhouse he'd gone up to Reynolds to collect some money.

And Garry, thinking he had come back, believed it." "Kenny," said Whitaker, his patience quite gone, "are you mad?
How on earth did Brian force you into that lie ?" "By not coming home," said Kenny sulkily.

"If he'd come home as a lad should, I needn't have told it.