Andy Grant's Pluck

y!" said Arthur Bacon, a

in Penhur

alarm, for the word suggested somethin

lope and read the few

once. Somethin

THE

erplexed. "At any rate, mother is

it?" aske

can read the tele

" asked Arthur, in

n is ther

e this a

. I must go and

you come

e dark. I think something mus

t was Saturday afternoon, and school was n

d the doctor,

ered. Dr. Crabb smiled, for

he said. "What c

ome. I have just had a tele

intellectual face. He wore glasses, and had done so for ten year

ate! Only two weeks to the end of

; but perhaps I may b

can. There is hardly a pupi

fully. "There is a train at three

me hear from you, even

e, doctor. Thank you f

endowments, the annual rate to boarding scholars was very

. Crabb, who had been the principal for twenty-five years. He had connected himself with the school

r over two years, and wa

few months he would

that he would do him credit and make a brilliant record for scholarship. Indeed, it was

, where Andy's parents

ock, the train reached

atform he saw Roland Hunt

a cheerful greeting. "How do you happ

e by a telegram. Is-are

far as

hed a sigh

d. "I was afraid some one i

I would have hear

is wel

it, I heard he h

nything serious. Are you

k along

uncle's buggy on the other side of the

eavy, and as it is a mile to the house

I don't know but I ought to charge you a q

like," rejoined Andy, smili

ly. You and she are gre

swered Andy,

deal more of you th

rothers, I believe. If I had a sister, I

d Andy at his

lemented by the interest on three thousand dollars invested in government bonds. On the farm was a house of mod

d walked up to the fron

t did when he left at the beginning of the school

d spirits, eager to ret

happened, he did

he sitting room before she was fully aware of his presence. The

but there was a smile upon

she said. "I didn't think

for I felt anxious. What has

in fair health, but we h

t is

in Benton, has disappeared with twenty

th father? He hasn't mu

rence's bond to the amount

ndy, gravely, "How

hole o

. To a man in moderate circumstan

e a great difference?"

thousand dollars in government bonds. It will be necessary to sacrifice

is the f

six thousa

roperty is nearl

elp from outside interest, and will, besides, have to pay inte

d and eight

es

inish our income by rather mor

, An

tion has been costing father

this misfortune was

Mrs. Grant, "that you wi

ess which he did not feel. "And in place of going to col

you, Andy," said his moth

there are plenty of boys who don't go to c

l, Andy. It is of you your father and I have

father the money o

llingness to do so. He will be he

man. If there is a chance to take advanta