I'll speak to him if you like." It cost me a great effort to say this.
Smith fired up unwontedly at the suggestion.
"If you do, you and I will never be friends again," he said, passionately.

Then recovering himself, he added, repentantly, "Fred, I'm awfully sorry I lost my temper.

I know I'm a brute; but please don't think of speaking to any one about it." "All right, old man," said I.
And so the night wore on, and when presently it came to be our turn to lie down and sleep in the big bed, I, at any rate, did so a good deal disturbed in my spirit, and not altogether sure whether in our present escapade we Stonebridge House boys were not making rather fools of ourselves..