Part 44 (1/2)

”I don't know if I would dare Ma ht whiplike that”

”I don't think she would--not if you promise to turn over a new leaf

I should think you would rather go houess I would go home if I had a railroad ticket and some clothes fit to wear You can see how this suit looks,” and Toed elbows and patched trousers

”I'll see if I can do so for you,” said Matt

When Andy came back he told his partner Tom Inwold's story To this the boy himself added the tale of his hardshi+ps while with the rival auctioneers, and added that he was very sorry he had endeavored to do any injury to the stock in the store

”I believe he means it,” said Matt, as he and Andy walked a little to one side ”And I would like to do so for the lad, for his mother's sake as much as his own”

”I think I can fix it,” replied Andy ”I'll have a talk with this Gisse for his work”

”I reckon he will--when I tell hi the boy from home”

Andy told Tom Inwold to acco back, but when Andy pro interview entirely upon his own shoulders, the lad consented to go along

They were gone nearly an hour, and during that tih the partition which separated the two stores But when Andy and Tom Inwold came back he saw by their faces that they had triuto do with the boy, and all that But I threatened him with immediate arrest, and proainst hiave Tom thirty dollars, hich to buy a new suit of clothes, a pair of shoes, a hat, and a railroad ticket, upon conditions that he would not be prosecuted I reckon he was badly scared, too”

Matt was e of the store, he went out to dinner, taking To apparel was purchased and donned, and then they made their way to the depot Here a ticket for Plainfield was procured, and the young auctioneer saw to it that the boy boarded the proper train

”I'll never forget you, never,” said To, and he never has, nor has Mrs Inwold, as grateful to the last degree for what Matt had been instruoing down to the store to open up, Andy and Matt saw that the entire stock of the store adjoining had been reht Gissem had been fearful of trouble, despite what Andy had promised, and had taken ti auctioneers neverthe entire field to the auctioneers did a splendid business, and when they were ready to pack up and start for Scranton they found that they had cleared nearly ninety dollars by their stay in Wilkes-Barre

In thesteadily colder, and they found it necessary to invest in a second-hand robe to keep the

”It looks a bit like snow,” re ”I hope we don't catch it before we reach where we are going to A snowstor to encounter”

”We ed forward, and soon the city outskirts were left far behind

The sun had shone for awhile, but about nine o'clock it went under a heavy cloud Then it began to get slightly war

His prediction was fulfilled By ten o'clock it was snowing furiously, and by eleven the ground was covered to the depth of half a foot

”That settles it; we can't make Scranton to-day, nor even Pittston,”

said Matt ”We had better hunt up some sort of a house with a barn attached, where we can put up”

But Andy was for continuing the journey, so onward they went, until at last, just before the noon hour, they found the road getting too heavy for Billy They went down into a hollohich the falling snow had covered, and there the wagon ree it

They looked around in so of any sort was in sight