ad been worked up a good deal all morning, and when dinner time came he wa

t prim and erect, barely glanced at him, and as Frank arose from the table, ha

a word or two, Au

d his ungracious

rge made against me by Mr

rge," remarked Miss Brown, w

gs that look so black for me now. All that I am worrying about is that this affair may get to father and mother. It would s

e to them until y

ver saw old man Mace's bracelet? Aunt Tib, I am ashamed of you. I tell you, I'm holding

" she said quickly. "We must

nd Roseberry will do something to bring affairs to a focus. If this thing gets around the village, it wil

houghts to wander unrestrained. He actually envied Ned Foreman and his wandering career. If it had not been for his lo

r, and scared away what few acquaintances Frank had with her severe looks and manner. The Jordans had lived at Tipton for only a year. The greater part of that time Frank had been abse

even paused and looked through its front plate-glass show window. He passed the usual hangout of Judge R

ers on, and that they glanced after him with some curiosity. A little farther on two little schoolboy

e no evidence against me, and they don't dare to arrest me. If they

might have been imagination, but Frank fancied that one or two of them greeted him with a cool nod and hurried on. As he politely

n for the schoolboys. An old hermit-like fellow named Clay Dobbins had lived for years at the other side of the hill. He owned a l

ess money than he had expected," and old Dobbins had

So he had rented a hut the other side of Bolter's Hill, near the schoolhouse. He plann

bbins dwelling uphill and then down again. A house-moving firm from Pentonville, however, had engaged to perform the work. They had jacked up

It was a novelty to the school youngsters to watch the horse go round and ro

raced through the house, clambered over the moving frame, and knocked with the workmen's

rope brought it taut. The house was anchored about half way up the

ing to "walk the tightr

ng a willow stick wi

ried the lad, "won't y

ber and set at work. Only a few of the large boys were about the spot. Frank no

at a happy rate. A second urchin preferred a modest request, and Frank had just com

atter?" inquired F

ly taken the whistle away from him, and when he had got through testing i

The jeweler's nephew was up to just such mean, unmanly tricks all of the time. Frank felt that he d

s, who were engaged in leaping across a puddle near a pit in the hillside. He marc

"can't you find a little better employment

p, but put on

iness?" he deman

be the business of any decent, fair-m

to do about it?" demanded

e that whistle back to that boy, or I'm going to

rted Gill, swelling up

t get the whistle, for

k, when Gill, making a sudden jump, landed up against

ying my hands with a thi

all the pride and anger in h

bled fists, but edging away, for the look in

thief, do you?"

nd bracelet from my unc

a falsehood as foul and dirty as th

and into the mud-puddle, head over heels