Facing the World

thin visage surrounded by a thicket of dull-red hair. He came forward as Harry jumped to th

s my na

and come along with me. Mrs. Fox will

dian. There was a crafty look about the eyes of Mr. Fox which seemed

ty well grow

s,

stout an

eve I a

ut not so hefty. He's goin' to be t

t write how much prope

d, I presume there'll be only ab

pped short

alent at making money

, that money won't las

living. Isn't there something

keep a man part of the time, but I reckon I can let him go and take you on instead. Yo

tipulate; I will wait a day or two before going

distance. A little distance ahead appeared a square house, painted yell

," said John Fox

e his father, came forward and

l, extending a red han

aid Harry, not much attract

d John Fox. "Sally, this

family resemblance to her f

per table, was as peculiar in her appearance and

h the railway by which he had come was eight miles distant, there was another, passing within a mile of the village. He struck upon it, and before proceedin

es over the road before this is mended, there'

In the yard the week's washing was hung o

h?" asked Harry, in exciteme

! what for?

train. The road

," answered the woman, now as excited as our her

rried down the track west of a curve which was a few hundred feet beyond the washout, and saw the t

t?" he asked him

f the engineer. It did! The engineer, though not understanding the meaning of the signal, not knowing indeed, but it might

ed Harry, breathing

he train, and when he looked

ith a shudder, "you

art was in my mouth, lest yo

riosity had been roused by the sudden

and ladies grew faint, while many a fervent ejacula

r. "It was he who stood on the fence and signale

at portly, pushed h

me, my lad?" he

ry V

me very near being the death of me. Gentlemen"-here the president turned to the

urned the gentl

off with a subscripti

the president himself making the rounds barehea

g forward, "don't reward me for what was only my duty. I shou

ull of people," said the president, dryly, "but we set

, s

hamed to accept a little testimonial o

the president gathered the bills fro

u a considerable balance, for I value my life at more than twenty dollar

preceding station, where there was a telegraph office, from which me

ull of money, hardly knowing wh

r of the tablecloth some small share of the money,

his steps to the house, "is your tablecloth, f

nk a tablecloth would do so much good. Why

eptance of this bill to p

y, you've given

from the passengers. Th

t tell me

is Harr

here? I never hee

e village. I'm going

y! Be you any

ear. He's m

money give you, he'll want

for so short a time been the possessor of the money, of whi

d-morning!

been a lucky morni

I can count this money unob

y he saw a

og, took out the bills, which he had hurriedly

, joyously. "It has been, indeed, a lucky morn

d: "Should he give this money

en, could he conceal it? Looking about him, he noticed a little, leather-covered, black trunk,

ondition. He made a pile of the bills, and depositing them in

place of c

ted by trees. The hill was a gravelly formation, and therefore dry. At one point near a withered tree, our h

asily store away the box in its recess, then covered it up carefully,

," he said, in a to

fifteen dollars in small bills,

he post office, and started off

of the washout?"

ered it, and signaled the

id he

shawl or

kely; where would a

mant look

rowed it of Mrs. Br

near by, so that the speaker's surmise was correc

rock," he said. "She must have seen t

along w

und themselves on M

Mrs. Brock,"

igh havin' a c

I was awful skeered about it, for I thought my Nancy

t boy?" asked

boy you are

" ejaculated Fox,

l about it,

in' a red tablecloth from the line, asked me if I would lend it

danger of an accident.' Of course, I let him have it, and he did signal the tr

ring back the

't all. He brought me a ten-dolla

" exclaimed John Fox, in ama

by the passengers, and given to the boy, and he thought I ought to have pay for use

d?" repeated Fox, pricking up his

way back to the road. He w