nces in particular when Giant mentioned the fact that his mother

is country when she was about sixteen years of age, coming with an uncle, who was her guardi

s get your history l

nt. "It must ru

nd let Giant tell us about

though he told my mother he wished she had married a Frenchman instead of an American. They all went to live at a place cal

t any fellows to study it,"

Pierre grew kind of queer in his head. My mother thought it was too much study and she advised him to take a rest. But he said he must get his b

ght me by the hands and rushed around the house like a crazy man. 'A hundred thousand francs! A hundred thousand francs!' he kept calling out, o

ed Whopper, who knew li

about nineteen c

tried to get the particulars from Uncle Pierre, but he was so excited she could not, excepting th

nly damage done was to one corner in which was located Uncle Pierre's writing desk. The de

of committing suicide, but my mother stopped him. She told him to remember about his good fortune in having all that money left to him, but h

?" came from

d gone away. Of course my mother sent out an alarm, and

d him later,"

acted all came to the conclusion that he had gone to the river

he fortune?" q

some money was really coming to her and my uncle, but could not get any particulars. She even employed a lawyer, but after a ye

got the money?"

dollar

er spoke about this

had a crazy man in our family. But Uncle Pierre wasn't really crazy--he was only qu

day, Giant," said Snap. "I wouldn

I am going to France and try to hu

r say anything about

very much attached to him, and to have him disapp

ver on the coast w

, about twenty miles to the north of here. My father

e fifteen years later," said Shep. "But he simply

e him some gooseberry pie and she wouldn't do it. When he came back he asked her, 'Maria, will you make

ried Snap. "It's about time you turned

but the strict truth,

e, Snap asked the others i

ut one," answered the doctor's son, w

oat," said Whopper. "I don't be

of the night," said Giant. "That will scare of

would, consequently, burn slowly. They sat up until about nine o'clock and then turned

here but one night they had not fixed up any couches further than to throw down some dry brushwood and a few cedar

about two hours when

the bark of a fox not

hing," he murmured to himself, and then, reaching for h

that the fox might not see him. Just back of the temporary camp was a big roc

e more, this time much closer. He strained his eyes to catch sigh

up his mind that the fox had gotten scared and turned tail, w

nce the sound had proceeded, and at last caught the gleam o

hunter, and raising his shotgun he t

ad cleaned the firearm, but had not loaded it. The fox heard the click, caught sight of