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"Do I understand you, then, to claim that Ralph, the slate-picker, is my son? this boy and no other?" "That is my client's statement, madam." The lady leaned back wearily in her chair. "Then I fear you have come upon a futile errand, Mr. Sharpman," she said. But, from the lawyer's stand-point, it began to look as if the errand was to be successful.
"Ralph, the slate-picker! Do you mean that boy?" It was Sharpman's turn to be surprised. "Do you know him?" he asked, quickly. "I do," she replied. "My husband first told me of him; I have seen him frequently; I have talked with him so lately as yesterday." "Ah, indeed! I am very glad you know the boy. We can talk more intelligently concerning him."
Without thinking that there might be any impropriety in doing so, he continued to read the letter as fast as his wildly beating heart and his eyes clouded with mist would let him. "I have not time to tell you why and how I know, but, believe me, Margaret, there is no mistake. He is Ralph, the slate-picker, of whom I told you, who lives with Bachelor Billy.
"I ain't got nothin' agin him," he began, referring to Ralph, "he's a good enough feller for a slate-picker, for w'at I know; but that's all he is; he ain't a Burnham, no more'n I be, if he was he wouldn't be a-workin' here in the dirt; it ain't reason'ble." Before Ralph could reply, some one took up the cudgel for him. "Yes, he is too, a Burnham.
By Horatio Alger, Jr. Julian Mortimer or, A Brave Boy's Struggles for Home and Fortune. By Harry Castlemon. Adrift In The Wilds; or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys. By Edward S. Ellis. Frank Fowler, The Cash Boy. By Horatio Alger, Jr. Guy Harris, The Runaway. By Harry Castlemon. Ben Burton, The Slate-Picker. By Harry Prentice. Tom Temple's Career. By Horatio Alger, Jr.
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