Facing the World

ticipated a second v

glance at the bed, go to the chair containing his pantaloons, and put back the deceptive wallet. She was about to prosecute a further

ch Mrs. Fox had left wide open, extinguished the candle, an

dle!" he hear

a considerable time in the wild region beyond the Missouri River, and had mingled fami

lady," thought Harry

the darkness and silence, a terrific warwh

rdinarily, but she was undeniably

eated in disorder, almost stumbling downstairs in her precipitate flight. Dashing into

e matter?" exclaimed her husband

know," sh

if you had

It's my belief the attic is haunted. I went upstairs and put back the wallet, and was looking to see

it like,

like it before. All I know is, I wouldn'

y sleep thr

ell? The can

he blew

bed, and he was fast asleep, for I looked at him. I

popular report he had been cruelly treated and insufficiently fed, until he was taken sick and had died in the very bedroom whe

for to him, also, the subject was an unpleasant

to give it up to-morrow. The best thi

d was punctual at the table. Mr. Fox cast a suspicious glance at his ward, but the boy lo

leep, Harry?"

you," answered

ar any-strange

N

l speak of our future arrangements. I have considerable to

sation do yo

would go to Mrs. Fox; as well as pay twenty-five cents a week for your mending. That also would go to my wife. Now, if y

Fox, that is rather lo

rs and a quarter," sai

st idea of working for any such trifle, but he

Mr. Fox," he said, "and during th

ms a week from now," said Fox, who wa

it, sir. I prefer to hav

ink you had better give me your

r. Fox; but I am not

d left the greater part of his treasure. It was possible that he had been seen hiding i

nd see where he goes. He may be goin' to

do it. I wish I had fo

e suited Joel. Whatever was secre

very successfully. The task was made easier, becaus

the railroad," sai

ourse diverged to the hillock, at the to

g. He saw our hero digging at a particular spot, and concluded that he was going to hide the fifteen dollar

be a hundred dollars in that roll of bill

nd and deliberated. Then he put it in his pocket, resolved

nch of a small tree, and for about half a minute what Harry did was concealed from hi

e hill, and accordingly scuttled away sufficiently far to escape sus

y in a different direction, went back to the hill as soon as he thought it would be safe, and eagerly ascended it. He found without difficulty the spot where Ha

became anxious, as the expect

ug deep enough," h

hought Joel, crestfallen. "He's served me a mean trick. Wo

arrowly he had escaped being robbe

"I would ask Mr. Howard to take care of it

the railroad, to whom he was pr

he thought, "I would ask hi

epot, the first person on whom his eyes fell w

, sir?" said H

d the president cordially. "I hope you haven't

or me? I don't want to spend it

really desire it, I

d it as a very

epot and Harry, counting out two hundred and f

Conway, President of the Craven County Railroad

e depot waiting for the arrival of t

in'?" asked Joe

his mo

ing Harry sharply. "I'd make a journey out West. Say, Ha

es

ou've go

I get it?" d

ur pockets, and le'me s

't see any use in

das

ll! Call

n me on the hill," concluded Harry. "It's w