what the result of the interview had been; his father had not been able to change Beman. Beman apparently had forgotten that he had told Peewee to stay upstairs; but he might remember it. Peewee moved out into the hall and went slowly up to his room.
He choked at the room's look of comfort. What was it Beman had said, "She'll believe because, by the Lord! I've got both the story and the boy." He perceived, as he stood in the room, the boy in the mirror standing in the reflected room in his new clothes.
They called the clothes his as they called the room, but both he realized, belonged to Beman. He went suddenly to the drawer into which the servant had tumbled his old clothes, and choked again as he saw that the clothes still were there. Then he began to take off his new clothes.
He folded his coat and shirt carefully and put them on a chair; then his knickerbockers. He unfastened his shoes; then he hesitated, and refastened them. He looked a long time at them, but finally he took off the shoes and stockings. He put on his old clothes which had been damp
