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

perfectly well. The village tradesman was greatly excited, and he glided

more severe, shocked and alarming than ever before. He did not move, drawing uprig

plexed tone; and then, with a faint smile, glancing at the

and he seized Frank by the arm. "You young rasca

s dumfounded, and listened like one in a dream

Nobody else could have done it-nobody else was in the store when he bough

e bracelet give it up,

antly at this, "you don't mean to say that yo

ted," returned Miss Brown i

an!" he fairly shouted at Samuel Mace, "how dare you even so much as insinuate t

e after you left. You took it,"

didn't take it

ll have you arrested,"

make it hot for you," decl

innocence, and marched from the room all o

out into the open air again. "How dare he make such a ch

und or two. When he came again to the front of the house, Samuel Mace was departing fro

bout this,

ld scarcely restrain himself from arguing with her. Then he remembered his promise to his absent parents and that Miss Brown was a credulous, suspicious old maid. He tried to forget his troubl

n a miserable enough time feeding some pet pigeon

-this way f

ast reputation. He managed to eke out a living by giving what he called legal advice at a cheap rate, and mixing in politics. Sometimes he collected bills for the tradesmen of the town, and in this way he had been useful to Mace. Most of th

sly enough, as he half guessed the mission of

Roseberry, gravely balanci

rank, keeping out of rad

"I'm too old a bird to have to circumlocate. Y

of it before,"

erry with bland unction.

lection he gave you to make. I heard him tell my mother th

commissions," stammered the judge, becoming more turkey-red th

open-faced and steadily at Ros

ry, see? The law is very baffling, my fr

only an innocent, mis

Roseberry, I know why yo

ent, Mr

I would steal. Why, I don't have to steal. I have what money I need, and more than that. I tell you, if my fathe

ted that the accused lad had a good reputation generally. Anyhow, the open, resolute way in whic

ly legal in the cas

r me," said Frank irritably,

out the judge after him. "I

ompromise," asserted F

n. Don't be fool

our suggestion?

one way, you walk the other. No witnesses. I'll put the ten-dollar bill on the stump-you'

you are driving a

. As I pass your stump-backs to each other, mind you, no witnesse

said Frank readily, but wit

inquired the

es

oo

nish the bracelet

my duty out of consideration for your respected family. You won't listen to reason, so