upon Grant in wonderment-thos

Grant Colburn?"

know of, M

have got twenty dollar

, I

it t

got the mon

is it

line t

ur step-father, and natural guardi

At any rate, I

boy. Of course Mr. Shick won't be paid, and he'll send in his bill to you or me likely. He can't make us

r. Tarbox le

feeling anxious. It does seem a crazy id

uld it,

e no money to

u ever know me

Gra

t money enough to pay for this suit

ot honest

urse i

is really and

t

g to tell me wh

, mother. I wil

" said Mrs. Tarbox, relieved, "and I

rry any more,

Gra

haven't lost co

five dollars. On his way back he called at the tailor's, and paid Mr. Shick for h

ny money," he said to himself, "

a neighbor, called at th

, the breaking down of the

t," said Seth Tarbox,

ught everyb

id it

it gave way from old age

s it fou

along. I tell you it was a narraw escape for the train. Th

? How did the engine

ay, and saw the condition of the

b

hat and a handkerchief on the tines, and

yes wide, and a sudden

have been Gr

ll you anythi

N

ion for the boy, whoever he was. He must

ing his leg vigorously. "He's gone and ordered a twenty-dollar suit, a

it. Well, the boy needs a new

grandson Rodney offered him a suit of his for nothin'

smile, "but I think if I'd been in Grant's

ctly afterward, and Seth

s Grant,

s chores were done, but he di

e got his money," said

idn't do anything

y, but 52he'd ought to have consul

d he get

oken, and signalled the train a

es sparkled with

noble act,

ution, and Jotham Perry thinks Gr

eserv

hing that don't occur to you, Mrs. T. What he did was done in time, and he lost

the lives of the passengers

der the circumstances I think I ough

claimed his wife i

t he wouldn't have no twenty dollars

as saved you the money you would h

in' to give him one of his old suits. Now I think of it, I'll go down and see Mr. Shick and

mean thing to

nd by his full name when she had oc

ame way, Mrs. T.," said her husband calm

ill open for business

ave you come to pick o

ave you cut out G

is nearly

for you. You mus

y n

the money, as I've found out, but part of it belongs t

Tarbox. The suit will be made up, a

risk. I've warned you th

ox. You have taken your walk for no

aculated M

for the suit in advance. I advise you t

anly. Of course there was no resource. He was too wise to ask Mr. Shick to refund the money, for

walked slowly down the road. "Grant must have a pretty uncomfortable time at h

t to have that, for it was in my time that he earned the mone

e o'clock, for he was tired

o happened that this night he waked up about eleven, and

whether to feel a

x?" he demanded in a voice which he