below the Cooper Institute, runs out to Harlem. A man came out of a side stre
ated Frank, looking i
hat does
'd like some
heard of
im what he charges
at the man, and soon conc
" he said. "He mea
nous cry of these men certainly sounds more like "
Dick, "where
Central Park," said
and a half from here
and the Park begins a
found the terminus of the Harlem line of horse-cars. When the entire island is laid out and settled, probably the numbers will reach two hundred or more. Central Park, which lies between Fifty-ninth Street on the south, and One Hundred and Tenth Street on the north,
far to walk
t six cents to r
in the h
es
We'll jump aboa
sually dirty and overcrowded. Still, when it is considered that only seven cents are charged for the entire distance to Harlem, about seven miles fro
nt approaching, but it
t, or wait for ano
st likely be as
ont platform. They were obliged to stand up till the car reached Fortieth
nd thin lips did not seem to promise a very pleasant disposition. When the two gentlemen who sat beside
two," she said, loo
re two he
been. Some people like to cro
hought Frank; but he did not say so. He saw that the wom
s it is quite inferior to Broadway, though better than some of the avenues further east. Fifth Avenue, as most of my readers already know, is the finest street in the city, being lined with splendid private residences, occupi
en. While he was busy looking out of the car window, she plunged her hand into her pocket in search of her purse, which she was unable to find. Instantly she ju
he exclaimed i
ma'am?" returned
to come here
s the
dollars and eighty cents in it. I know,
stole
harge in the most intense astonishment. "He crowded in here o
" exclaimed Di
e say," said the woman spitefully. "Y
ale, you be!" said
l me a female, sir," s
man in disguise,
" said Frank, quietly. "The conduct
eir pockets, to make sure that they, too, had not been robbed. As for Frank, his face flushed, and he felt very indignant that he s
brought himself up, and known plenty of boys and men, too, who would steal, he had never done so himself. He thought it mean.
ith the boys. Appearances go a great wa
said a gentleman sitting opposite. "The
lady, sourly. "They're deceitful;
me with my Washington coat on. You'd thi
aid the lady, scowling in
Dick. "'Tisn't often I ge
the lady, wrathfully. "I believ
he car had
manded a passenger, impatiently. "I'm in
t-book," said th
and I don't see as it's doing yo
ng scamp?" continued the aggrieved lady. "You don't expe
" said Frank, proudly. "There's no need of a police
he conductor, "if the lad
ignified h
side out, but nothing was revealed exce
you satisfied?" as
," said she
hink he's go
his confederate, that boy ther
" said Dick
said the lady; "I
tion, only, as I've got valooable property about
, a battered cent, about fifty cents in change, and the capacious pocket-book which he
holding up the wallet which excited some amaz
ge pocket-book for a young man
my cash and valooable
rs, ma'am," said the cond
rry round such a great wallet as that. Mos
e you'd be!" said Dick
k it
money's in it," sai
pen that wallet, and s
le papers," said Dick, in
let excited some amusem
the conductor, taking out a roll of tissue pape
ers of no valoo to anybody but the owner? If the
e discomfiture. "I shouldn't wonder if one of th
ntleman opposite. "I don't believe either of the boys is
u, sir,"
ie. She hardly knew whether to be glad or sorry at this discovery. It placed her in rather an awkward position after
ok you thought stolen?
she, rathe
harply. "I wish you'd take care to be sure next time before you make such a
e cross reply; "I didn't
oys you accused of a theft which they have
dy, whose temper was not of the best; "least
aint of no consequence, only I didn't like to expose the contents of my valooab
the gentleman who had alr
cter!" mutte
against the lady, and on the side of the boys who had been falsel
et, the southern boundary of the Park, an
," said the conductor, pleasantly. "That big w
r of burglars breakin' in and robbin' us of our valooable treasures. Sometimes I think I'll give al
nd the boys turned up Fifty-ninth Street, for t