The Store Boy
Hall he discovered, at the first gl
I would have been here sooner, but I went home with Rose Gard
lay smile
feel lonely," she said
go away till af
r," said Ben, thinking some of his m
one, Ben. They brought bad ne
mother? Who c
same man who took you
claimed Ben hastily.
d me no harm. He asked for som
news did
be good news if it were true. He said that your father left pr
so?" said Ben, looking a
id not co
N
now, mother, I met him on my way home, or rather, h
y?" asked Mrs.
a laugh, that it would be of no use to him. Then he said he mig
dying father, and has them now in his possession. He promised t
id he should leave town to-night. But, mo
se our home," said the widow, the lo
you mean,
d dollars; he was here to-night with a man named Kirk, some connection of hi
want it, mother,"
he does; he threatens to foreclo
situation now, and ap
s he offe
ars only-perhaps
uld be downr
he law. Ben, we are
and he is a
mind, mother. He might be in better bu
can do to save the house, and that is, to induce someone
of anybody wh
lay shook
ew York, but I have not met him since I was married; he thought a great deal of me once, but I suppose he scar
he is
y rich, I
day's vacation from Mr. Crawford
d it would
thing for traveling expenses. But I would go as econ
on't forbid you, though I have li
rday, and I can't be spared at the store; there is alwa
iving any advice, Be
inner, Ben met his young rival of
, Tom?" said
Barclay," said the young ar
'm listening
s opinion, Ben showed him, but hardly knew how to express
ound Rose Gardiner so muc
n by that?" dema
tions on her last even
old yo
it for
ose didn't t
her family to have a common
r, Tom Davenport. You talk as if you were the guardian of the
suitable, but you had made
once, if she had expressed a wish to that eff
," said Tom loftily. "I don't wa
same. You can make money by
ng more to tell you. You'll be out on the sidewalk before three mont
his heart sank within him as he realized