mmer! Here's a whole ba

having emptie

robbed, Jaggers sat down on the ground,

w of money where I look

atisfaction, though

tly prepared to be suspicious that his rasca

ngs deep down in a trouser

ill I light the dark lantern. Then we can count

fingers twice in attempting to light the lantern. Yet at last the lantern w

Dan, sociable like, so I c

pocket o' your 'n. Now, pull out that money, an' be sure ye git it all out. Turn the pocket inside out. That

ceeded. Josh found that he had just four hundred dollars in his "findings." D

with which to close the top of the pocket. "Now, I'll go back to the road, find the hoss, an' drive him most of the way

all that money with ye inter

clared Jaggers, with sin

t loose, an' do their talkin', folks will remember that ye showed such a lot o' cash on this night, an' the law'll have you caught in yer own s

here when I came bac

gg

f his. "Don't ye see, Danny, it'd be foolish of me to light out with all the money? Then ye'd turn against me, an' help the const

retorted that y

Josh Owen. He accompanied the words with a spring, bear

owled the ex-foreman, hoarsely. "Now, will ye hand

, while still pinned d

red his half of

headed right, then go on into town and get the liquor. But don't ye stop to drink in Dunhaven, Danny. If ye do, ye'll be sure to git inter a fight, and ye might do some talki

n now, at the expense of his uncle's life. But Josh paid no

ed. "My throat is gittin' mig

er five-spot,"

uncle, firmly. "The quicker ye start, an' return, the quic

and shuffled off through the woods, well knowing that h

dark lantern. Then, after taking a look at the boys, he seated

clean drove them shoes

't wo

sist the temptation to open the slide of his lantern ever so

ot have answered anyway. "I guess likely Farnum must ha' been fool enough to let ye do some collectin' for him

tate of good humor. He looked at the chuckling, and

s the time passed. Hal Hastings was

his injured mother!" thought Jack, squirming. "Confound it, I feel, just now, as though I would never caught trying t

this terrif

ory will sound altogether too absurd." "What wi

ye, younker?" leered Josh Owen, hearing

uls, time soon began to drag on th

never straying away from the two boys. "That young feller thinks a heap too much o' liquor for one so young. He's

thought he heard someo

ftly, or signaled, but

al. Yet these drowsings must have been short. They were filled with horrible dreams of disgr

th a start, to realize

one. He was listening, peering between the trees,

of the money?" chuckled the voice of Dan Jaggers. Then

his relieved uncle. "But I'm glad

dmitted Jaggers, seren

back here

lling me?" dema

an' stray off. So I've been watchin' round, 'thout making no noise, for hours." Josh O

ure, now, lad, that I'm

bring back

hing t

drink, hey? I gues

ugh the woods a few paces

r on the ground and began to lay out the meal. "When are you two going to eat? I don't know. Maybe not for a few d

n. But at last it was over. Josh brought out his ill-smelling pipe once mo

, Danny boy?" inquired O

proposed Jaggers, pa

rink, then sat with the bottl

better have any of thi

with a

sponded Jaggers, in

erily. Josh Owen finished his unwise beverage, and tossed the bottle a few feet a

ded, thickly, drowsily, "

t cunning in the young bully's eyes. For a brief space of time Owen fought again

, rifling the other man's pockets until he had brought t