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Updated: June 9, 2025
"It isn't likely there will be a visitor before midnight; but, to make sure, we will say about eleven." "I can warn the watchman" "You mustn't think of such a thing! We must slip inside without a soul knowing it. The watchman is the last one to trust." "Do you suspect him?" asked the astonished Mr. Warmore. "Not in the least; but you must never trust any person when it can possibly be avoided.
But, as he walked homeward in the silvery moonlight, he felt a respect for himself which, it is safe to say, would have come to few placed as he was. He had not given the first hint that he was the boy who, at the risk of his own life, had leaped into the wintry waters and rescued little Jennie Warmore from death. Who would have held back the secret in his situation?
Once or twice Tom was disposed to resent them; but reflecting that the gentleman was much older than he, and could have no wrong purpose in thus probing into his personal affairs, he replied promptly to all he asked. Finally, when this had continued until it began growing dark, Mr. Warmore said, "I wish to hire you to enter my store, how would you like it?"
It looked as if he intended to make a call at Bellemore. Greater astonishment came when Tom saw the handsome carriage of Mr. Warmore at the landing. The driver was perched on the high seat in front, while Mrs. Warmore and her daughter Jennie occupied the rear seat, facing the vacant one. "Can it be possible? Well, that beats me!"
It was important that the two clerks sleeping upstairs should not be awakened; for they were not only likely to begin shooting, if they heard intruders below, but, of necessity, would learn of the project which the detective and the merchant had in mind. Every foot was familiar to Mr. Warmore, who reached the large main room of his establishment without mishap.
"I hope, Miss Warmore, you have not been injured." "Not in the least, thanks to your bravery," replied the young lady, displaying wonderful coolness. "I have had a pretty rapid ride and a bad shock, but that is all." Tom had caught up the reins and held them in hand, while he stood at the side of the vehicle near the daughter of his employer.
Warmore is weak enough to let that fellow turn him against me, he is a different man from what I suspected. His store is not the only one in the world, and at the first unfair act on his part, I shall leave hello!"
Only two or three incidents worthy of note fell to the lot of Tom Gordon during his second year in the employ of Josiah Warmore. At the beginning of the year he was promoted, and received a considerable increase of salary. The situation given to him belonged by right of seniority of service to Max Zeigler, and was looked upon as a certainty by him.
Then she made inquiries, but no one seemed to know anything about him." "It distressed me," added the lady; "for I felt he must think we were ungrateful. We advertised in the papers, but it was useless. I do not suppose we shall ever know who he was." "He may have been some poor boy in need of help," added Mr. Warmore; "but so brave a lad as that is sure to get along."
The younger man went to the chief hotel of the town, while the elder continued up the highway, thinking deeply over the subject he had just discussed with Catherwood. Now, it so happened that Josiah Warmore, the merchant, was a far shrewder man than G. Field Catherwood suspected. If the latter had been playing a part, so had the former.
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