t!" was the announcem

old on, and I'll get some

with Frank, and the insensible Hank was carried alongside the ro

d of succor, they could hardly have show

Frank had sprinkled the scratched

hat the fellow's eyes had opened, and w

er, Hank?" he

? No. I remember, now. Flimsy took the last cent I had while I lay in the road. The meanest skunk I ever met up with

in the road? Did you have a fight with that tr

talked. I started to tramp back home, and he kept nagging me all the way here. In the end he made me so mad I just tackled him. That w

If you'd kept with that rascal you'd soon have been ju

s fixed it so I can't," muttered th

k, believing there must be

nd say I lost it. I thought I could put it back in the bureau drawer, and h

'd only laugh at you, and

be arrested," grumbl

ght to have, I reckon. P'raps I might earn that ten some way, and hand it over. If I could only

o go away suddenly the day before yesterday. Look here, Hank! Do you really

has been worried some on my account, but they don't need to any more.

it, and Frank believed he could dete

, just as quickly as some others want to give you a drag down. It all depends on where the other chap is standing himself

ou, fellers," muttered the

e other poor chap in trouble. I guess if you know how to run a car decently you will get the job, i

plied Hank, cat

. Jerry, can you help me out?" asked Frank, who b

, by good luck," replie

ellers-an' after I playe

your first month's salary. Here you are, and don't think for a minute that you're getting the best of all t

dumb. He had tried to answer them as they

, will you!" laughed Jerry as he kept close at Frank's

of his own free will Hank was breaking away from his evil associations a

the rear, where the party addressed

ayed chauffeur half-way decent? I'd hate t

, and was discharged; but some people said Hank wasn't to blame; that it came about becaus

Well, here we separate, fellows. To-morrow morning, at the boathouse

the chums separated, and

ours there was an earnest talk, during which many ideas wer

e, as he had left word at home to send Hank Brady there, if he called. Hank was now decen

t, for I thought it best to start square, so that you need not fear about his

he shake on that accoun

rd started him along the straight and narrow path. My dad's the right sort, Hank. Serve him decently, and you'll never want a bett

never get over the white way you fellers acted with me, nev

engaged him, after he had learned what he knew about the running of a car. Hank had worked in

went forth upon their journey. Bluff had in mind a wonderful hunting-knife, with an ivory handle, a picture of which he

Think of a big grizzly trying to hug you! Where would your little knife be, then? You'd soon wish you had that Cuban machete that hangs

ot looking, he would go through certain gestures with it gripped in his hand, as though practicing ag

unting-knife, or else pretended to be. He shrugged his shoulders in tha

gun? Why, the poor innocent grizzly will faint dead away at sight of that

only l

on with that razor-edged tool. I'll have you all turning green with envy yet," h

otch nearer the time of departure. Finally the last night arrived, and their coming tour was to be m