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But I wish he had let me hide the rest of them away. It seems like putting temptation in the way of a weak brother. But he told me I wasn't even to believe Karl took the coins, and I won't!" Nevertheless, Jack Stormways must have passed a miserable night; for the anxious eyes of his mother noticed his distressed looks when he came down to breakfast on the following morning.
That eased the minds of the scouts, and they could go back again to their camp with good news for the others. A carriage came that day for the professor, and his assistants managed to carry him across country to the road; just as they had undoubtedly done the two big boxes of material that came from Mr. Stormways' mill that other day.
The gentleman allowed just a twinkle to appear in the corners of his eyes as he nodded his head, and said: "Well, er yes, very particular friends of mine, Paul, and whom I would be glad to see again right now. If you happen to sight such a machine, and I am still at my old friend, Stormways, I wish you would let me know about it."
Jared Pender, an old schoolmate of mine, and with whom I made several voyages abroad years ago," said Mr. Stormways. "He is in the employ of the Government now, and has to make visits all over the country, you know." Paul had once met a gentleman who was a post-office inspector, and somehow took it for granted that Mr.
Some of them had been at the fire, and witnessed the deed of daring carried out by Jack Stormways. Jealous of the other troop they tried to taunt them by various cries; but without success. However, most of them did not venture to tag after the marching corps.
Jared Pender who came out of the post-office as Paul happened to be passing the next day, and addressed the boy he had met on the preceding evening at the house of the Stormways. "Why, how do you do, Mr. Pender? Been at work, I see," replied Paul, with a suggestive look in the direction of the post-office. The tall dark gentleman looked a little perplexed, and followed Paul's glance.
"I acknowledge the corn, for that is just what I wanted to learn, Jack." "I suppose the sooner I take the bull by the horns, the quicker we can learn the truth; so come on in," and taking his chum by the arm Jack led the way boldly up to the door of the Stormways' house.
I have a chum with me on the boat. We want to find a man by the name of George Stormways. Can you tell me if he happens to live near by?" "Huh!" The owner of the woodyard and country store bent forward still more and took a closer look at the speaker. It seemed to Maurice as though Mr.
There are a lot of boys who would be vastly benefitted by such uplifting resolutions," she declared, with some show of enthusiasm. "Yes, mother, you are right," said Mr. Stormways, just then. "Things have been going from bad to worse in our town of late, and the fathers are beginning to wonder where it will end. Only yesterday I met old Peleg Growdy.
Stormways on the run, having just learned what his boy had done. He seized Jack in his arms, and shed tears over him; though at the same time his heart must have swelled within him with satisfaction that one of his brood had acquitted himself so well in a crisis that called for a cool head and nerves of steel. The flames kept on eating into the old building.
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