Bobby Blake on the School Nine; Or, The Champions of the Monatook Lake League

en able to keep track of the time during the latter part of their journe

e. The train was not regularly due for half an hour, and owing t

well. He was a kindly man and listened with the greatest sympathy to the boys' story. His ind

at kind. They make it a regular hang-out. We'll clean out the gang and burn the place to the ground

for at the other end, and the boys, possessing themselves of s

some thought, and several blanks we

to death by telling them we've been robbed. They'd think that perhaps we'd been hurt besides and were

mbined efforts stated the mat

lease telegraph twenty dollars to me, care st

bb

cutting out the "please." He was voted down however, and the teleg

was nothing to do but to wait.

will be before we can ge

," replied Bob

Clinton this very minu

from the station and I've heard my father say that Claxton isn't as quick about those things as he

be downtown and your mother may be out sleigh riding

father to get down to the telegraph office an

be all right." But, just the same, their doleful suggestions made him a litt

charge. "Suppose now-just suppose-that the money doesn't

ledge telling them that we can't get there till to-morrow. But even if the money is late, it's sur

ilson's anyway," remarked Pee Wee. "That

ive us such a meal and not char

five hungry boys

e in surprise. "Why, the

Fred, "but you

toward him, but Fr

oking out of the station wind

ws," he cried. "S

ether, looking o

my Stone!" eja

back to Belden S

her with him, I gue

s before. He had run away from home to go out West to "fight Indians." He had taken his fath

Bobby and Fred were standing by the side of the track as the train went thundering past, and the wallet fell almost at

ill they and their parents made earnest effort to find the owner, but as the days passed

d sent to Belden School, which was not far from Rockledge. Tommy had heard that the boys had found a pocketbook and suspected that it was the one that he had lost. He made a clean breast of it, and the money was restored

f which can be guessed at by Tommy's statement afterward that h

ike an Indian kill

could notice it,"

scalps at his bel

hem with exclamations of pleasure and surprise. Mr. Stone looked curiously at the g

re you fellows doing

to see you as you are to see u

to Belden?" i

too glad, either. I've never liked that school. The big f

ther to let you come to R

ed Fred, who felt to the full the traditional

ot some bullies of ou

ck Jinks, for instan

t year I can. But my father has all his arrangements made now, an

ather over ther

es

had a good right a

d with it out in the wo

of strap oil, Tomm

the chaffing. It was ev

me to hi

" he remonstrated. "We al

ed him a gr

an bet that I'm not going to

to talk," rejoin

ver to the group. He had never seen the boys before, as

yours, Tommy?" he ask

o to Rockledge School, right on the

Mr. Stone pricked up his ears as he

Bobby Blake and Fred Martin who found

y are," replied

s' hands in both of hi

ad I am to see you. I've often wanted to lay eyes on the boys who could find

d Bobby, who always felt embarr

," added Fred, his face gett

rsisted Mr. Stone. "I've always felt sorry that your folks wouldn't let me show my g

s the stuff for

s," put in Pee Wee. "I was in on

reads if he never remembers a

ed as he took in Pee We

ell me now how you boys find yourselves here. I thoug

and started to relate the

"And then you found out you could get a train on this road and tramped over here.

sn't all,"

r. Stone. "What

d on the way,"

ymptoms of great excitement. Robbed