Will you be my friend ?" Bruno firmly grasped Salo's proffered hand and cried out with beaming eyes, "Yes, Salo, I will be your friend my whole life long.

I wish I could do you a favor, too, as you have done me." "But I have not done anything for you," Salo said with surprise.
"Oh, yes, you have.

Now that I know I have a friend I have lost my dread of living with the Knippel boys.

I know that I can let them do as they please, for I'll know that I have a friend who thinks as I do and would have the same feeling about their actions, I'll be able to tell you everything, and you will tell me what you think.

I can let them alone and think of you." "Do you know, Bruno, the way I feel a real friendship ought to be ?" Salo said with glowing eyes, for this had made him happy, too.