With difficulty Sam smiled.

"So it would seem," he said.

"She certainly made an awfully funny story of it!" exclaimed
Holworthy admiringly. "I thought she was making it up--she
must have made some of it up. She said you asked her to take
a day off in New York. That isn't so is it?"

"Yes, that's so."

"By Jove!" cried Holworthy--and that you invited her to see
the moving-picture shows?"

Sam, conscious of the dearly bought front row seats in his
pocket, smiled pleasantly.

"Did she say I said that--or you?" he asked

"She did."

"Well, then, I must have said it."

Holworthy roared with amusement.

"And that you invited her to feed peanuts to the monkeys at
the Zoo?"

Sam avoided the little man's prying eyes.