The Boys of Bellwood School; Or, Frank Jordan's Triumph

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time was in the South, seeking to recuperate his failing health, and Mrs. Jordan was with him as his nurse. They had left Frank

ll he had to leave his aunt's house. The other was a wish that his father would write to him soon, telling

it. He felt a good deal like a boy shut up in a prison. His aunt used her authority severely. She kept him away from company, and allowed none of his friends to visit the house. From

s side a splendid fishing-pole with all the attachments that a lover of the rod and line might envy. His eye grew brighter as he glanced fondly along the supple staff with its neat joints of metal,

omised his parents, when they went away, that he would be obedient in all respects to his aunt. He was a boy of his word, and he felt that he had done exceed

to me makes a fellow sick. As to the stickpin-heigh ho! I won't think about it at all. I've lots to be thankful for. I only care that father gets well and

a signal of pain and distress. He started on a run and reached the edge of the stream in a few moments. He leaned b

. Just this side of it was a ragged, trampish-looking man. He had just picked up a piece of flat rock, and as

big bully must have hit him before I came, and that w

was about to challenge the man, when the latter shouted someth

out of that tree?" the man d

. The boy addressed continued silent. Frank could see

, and I'm going to get you! Why, you vagabond, you-you ungrateful young runaway! Here I'm your only solitary livin

roused up. "You try it, and see. Relative? You're n

our step-sister? Who gave you a home when

bbed her of it and squandered the money, and broke her heart, and she died, and you ought to

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I'm desperate, Ned Foreman. I'm in a fix where I've got to get away from these diggings, and

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vy stick and brandished it. Then he sat down on a rock and start

er were no match for the big, vicious fellow just beyond him. The boy in the tree looked honest and decent; the man after him looked just what h

ank noticed a double hornets' nest. He knew all about hornets and their ways, as did he of all the interesting things in the woods. Frank drew hi

and detached it from the limb. Then he lowered it, carefully poising it

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fluttering about to learn what the matter was. Frank gave the fishing-pole a swi

bout the man. The fellow gave a spring and a yell of pain. Then, his h