The Store Boy
a coin, which, though counterfeit, he would probably have managed to
d not leave the premises, but posted himself at a window, slightly open, of the room in which the widow recei
thought the tramp. "I'll
followed at a little distance. Not far from the squire's handsom
n'," he sai
on the unprepossessing figure, he instinctively put
he demanded a
ou needn't fear for you
llow! I can do n
see abo
e?" asked Squire D
t some business with you
aid Davenport, anxious to get rid
I want to leav
nothin
y. "I want to speak to you about the hus
y! Why, he is dead!" ejacul
ou know whether he
belie
o talk about. You'd b
ne of the tramp, and Squire Dave
see Mrs. Barclay about
hink you'd bett
y had reached th
" he said
oom, and his rough visitor followed him. By the lig
see you befo
ably
ss we can have together. I am
let was found in his pocket, and in that wallet was a promissory note for a th
d it was lost, yet here, after some years, appeared a man who knew of it. As Mr. Barclay had been reticent about his business affairs,
nge and improbable story?" asked
he tramp promptly. "The note wa
admitting for a moment
n my pocket at
r of the apartment, and stared in open-eyed
is father hastily. "This man
uire?" asked the tram
te a youn
her have with such a cad?
theless, at being take