"Oh, yes," said Asa. "Twice."
"Well, then, listen here. I want you should go up there, and
when he says are you the boy who was here yesterday, you say yes,
and don't say anything else if you can help it. See?"
"Oh, yes," said Asa, who did not see at all, but who did not let
that bother lot that bother him in the least.
"Mind!" said Beany sternly. "I don't want him to know about me
or Porky at all. There are reasons; Scout reasons, Asa, so you
mind out. Got that through your nut?"
"Oh, yes," said Asa, blinking his white lashes.
"You ain't afraid of him, are you?" asked Beany, remembering the
Wolf's keen eye.
"Oh, no," said Asa.
When Asa came down in a few minutes, he seemed rather upset--for
Asa. He blinked rapidly, and there was something so worried in
his open smile that Beany felt conscience-stricken to think he
had sent him on such an errand. He rose, and they walked rapidly
away, for Asa seemed to be thinking deeply.
When they reached the seats around the bandstand, deserted so
early in the morning, Beany sat down.
"Well, let's have it," he demanded.
"That's a funny guy," said Asa, twirling his Scout hat rapidly in
his pale bands. "I did just what you said. I went in, and I
said, 'Morning!' at all.
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