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

cibly, "and as I have not earned any f

Frank, as spry as a schoolboy and poking hi

s to me that you feel pretty lively for a man wh

"Where would I be if it hadn't happened? Why, boy, when I think of what you'v

his, Frank discerned. He wanted to

derstand," he began when his ec

some temper-hey? True as steel-hi! When the rope gave out you cut for it-

'" quoted Frank. "Are y

bin

u see? A boy's pocket knife. It sawed the big moving cable. Snap! Bang! Away went the house. Whose knife? Aha! Dear me-wh

mislaid his knife near the house that had been anchored on the

hen," said Frank, "is that

just

my kn

knife, Frank-no doub

w it was my kni

on it. Of course I didn'

it the next morning ri

irly shou

obbins,' says he to me, 'business is business. I have made a discovery. The person wh

say?" cried the

discovery I had just made, I lis

at did

stolen a diamond bracelet

hood," asserted Fr

have you give up that bracelet. He said that if I would have you arrested for smashing the house, it would break you down

in!" comme

ght have acted mean and measly, too, but I was so tickled over the way they did come ou

anything of the sort,"

look over the old ruins I come to where the old storeroom wall had busted out. You know it

u tell so-yes,

wall broke out in the crash. Confidentially," and the narrator looked around cautiously and lowered his voice

ejaculat

a lucky day for me wh

come over to the house, Mr. Dobbins, my aunt will assure you

ay, it was

ins was convinced. He was thoughtful for a moment or two, exchanged the coin

worth ten do

"I can't take your money. I'll tell you, t

or a fac

to do me

me, F

elf that I have told you the truth about being home l

I don't dou

y, and I want to s

ough I'd feel better

curious and perplexed whe

rily answered the quest

ion left the place, "if you are going to to

the folks. I shall not take much of your time, Mr. Dobbins,"

ded out a paper from the Jordan letter-box. Frank stuck it in his pocke

As he had expected, Judge Roseberry was lounging on the b

obbins," directed Frank. "

tting at, lad," said Dobbins desperately, "b

ht up to the crowd i

with an impressive seriousness, "I wi

he judge, taken off his

y," insis

nife?" stammered the judge, growi

informs me that he d

ns; "inasmuch as you show

racing up a little, "I hold it as eviden

ough. The evidence is all on Frank's side, as I have found out. He was in bed when that smash-up t

felt pretty sheepish in the act, for his cronies

or what you have done fo

they left

these varmints make you any more threats, just sue them a

whistling, and threw the newspaper he had just got at the post-office into his aunt's lap. As

er, Aunt Tib?" he

etter in her hand and loo

he paper, Frank,

folks?" inquir

assente

l?" asked Fran

rave and important, "the serious duties of life are grave. A false step may ch

k. "I know all about that; b

rrupted in one of her famous homili

ts to send you to Bellwood Schoo

He was so overcome that he could not sp

use, however, a riotous, echoing yell rang from

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