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"Why not?" asked Steve incredulously. "Well, seeing that he's a confidence-man " After breakfast the next morning, a breakfast eaten with excellent appetites, the two boys set out on a sightseeing tour about the school. They went first to the gymnasium.
"Why, the tall fellow just going out now! See him? He he looks just like the fellow in the station, the fellow who took your bag! The confidence-man!" "The confidence-man?" asked Steve incredulously. "Oh, you run away and play, Tom! What would he be doing here? Don't be a silly goat!" "Well, I suppose it isn't he, but but he certainly looked just like him."
Hallam; and rising, began to pace the room, her slender and rounded figure swaying gracefully, the while she talked. "George Calendar is a scoundrel," she said: "a swindler, gambler, what I believe you Americans call a confidence-man. He is also my late husband's first cousin. Some years since he found it convenient to leave England, likewise his wife and daughter. Mrs.
And then, while he was still striving to discern signs of depravity under the gentle and kindly exterior of the elderly confidence-man, a young woman, leading a little boy of some three or four years of age and bearing many bundles, hurried up to "Four-Fingered Phillips," spoke, helped him to his feet and guided him away toward the train-shed. Tom sighed. It was too much for him!
The old woman's unreasonable complaint that she was an encumbrance to her had eaten deeply into the child's mind. During the last year she had been a waitress for some time at a sailors' tavern down in Nyhavn with an innkeeper Elleby, the confidence-man who had fleeced Pelle on his first arrival in the city.
"How did you know he was from there?" "Not difficult," chuckled Miller. "It's on the end of his bag. And I knew he was coming to Brimfield because there was a tag on the handle. I couldn't make out your names, but I could see 'Brimfield, N. Y. all right." Steve and Tom smiled foolishly. "I never thought of that," murmured Tom. "We we thought you were a confidence-man!"
Steve hustled the things back into the bag and slammed the lid shut in a twinkling. Then, "Come in!" he called. The door opened and a tall youth stepped inside. He carried a suit-case in one hand. Tom gasped. It was the "confidence-man"! "Hi," greeted the visitor, with a smile, as he slid the suit-case across the floor and faced the two boys. "Want to swap bags?"
Above all, was it inevitable that in the realisation of its dreams, when wealth and power grew and money came pouring into it, there should be bred in the people an extraordinary and unwholesome love of speculation which in turn opened their opportunities to the gambler and the confidence-man of all kinds and sizes.
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