Our Fellows

t night, and a happier party than that whic

glowing description of his adventure with the Indians, we related to him

ol in the spring, and as we were too ambitious to fall behind our classes, we made it a point to devote a portion of each day to good hard study. I picked up my philosophy; while

im to a standstill, and resorting to his usual method of stimulating his ideas, he picked up his guitar and cleared his throat pr

loud voices at the door. Heavy steps sounded in the hall and ascended the stairs. A moment afterward the door opened and Sandy T

” we asked,

nct,” answered Sandy, “’cause you never

” we echoed

eight thousand dollars from G

e winter. He lived about six miles from our house, on the banks of Black Bayou. His parents were poor, and Jerry and his father were lumbermen. They

dence in their honesty that he never measured the rafts when they came out,

elf and his graceless nephew), and he would have been 47one of our fellows if he could have found time to accompany us on our expeditions; but he was too poor to own a h

s because he had plenty of money, for he never held a military commission

buy his timber in the swamps at double its value, and Mark and I had no hesitation i

eve a word of

r would never suspect him of

his bein’ in 48jail is consarned, ’cause my father seed him when he was goin’ in

ng we can do fo

d see him, and assure him o

“I will ride over arter Duke and Herbert, a

opped in the sitting-room for a few minutes to hear what Mr. Todd had to say about it, and when

out for Burton (that was the name of the village in which the jail was situated), ga

horseman in the road in advance of us, whose actions we thought indic

he ditch beside the road and riding toward the place where the stranger was concealed. “An honest

” asked a trembling

What trick are you up to now? You have been about some

re earnestness than we thought the occasion demanded. “I didn’t know who it was

see Jerry,”

t go near him if I we

t his face was deathly pale, and that he was trembling all

perhaps we should not have been so surprised at the sight. Had we been

the most unpopular boy in the settlement. He was so overbearing, and so dishonest and

s on our hunting and fishing excursions, and never allowed an opportunity to d

es something grand,” continued Tom, 51“and I su

eye and wrinkling up his nose, as he always did when he was ve

enough to disgrace him forever. Those who visit hi

fellow’s havin’ friends if they go back on him the minute he gets into trouble? Jerry will find that we’ll stick to him now same as

as we left Tom and went clattering down the road again, “if the

s, and without any delay were conducted

-begone expression on the face of the prisoner. A few hours had made a great change in that jolly, wide-awake boy. He sat on h

his,” said Jerry, in a husky voice; “and

ts friends, doesn’t he?” asked Duke

and have been sent here in default of bail—sixteen thous

housand dollars, I think, but it 53might bother ’em some to find a million. Now, I’ll tell you

ver saw t

manage to get into this mi

while we disposed of ourselves in various attitudes

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