Part 8 (1/2)

”No! Tut, tut!” exclaimed Mr Nestor ”It isn't your fault, Mary, but this To worse, and, for all he knew, therebox It won't do! It won't do! I'll write hiive him a piece of hter could say, Mr Nestor did write To a joke, or of being careless, or both, and he intimated that the less he saw of Tom at the Nestor houess that will make him wish he hadn't done it!” exclaier and sent the letter to Tom's house

Mary and her mother did not know the contents of the note, but Mary tried to get Tom on the wire and explain However, she was unable to reach hier, with Mr Nestor's letter, arrived just as our hero was receiving the late afternoonin an automobile to leave for the depot

”Good-bye, Dad!” Toert!” He thrust Mr

Nestor's letter, unopened, together with some other mail matter, which he took to be merely circulars, into an inner pocket, and jumped into the car

Toe of their journey

Chapter VII

Off for Peru

”Well, To, when our hero, and Koku, the giant, alighted from a taxicab in New York, in front of the hotel the contractor had appointed as a ood trip?”

”Oh, all right, yes Nothing happened to speak of, though ere delayed by a freight wreck Has Mr Dae saying he was on his way Coed hello, what's all the crowd here for?”

asked the contractor in soathered at the hotel entrance

”I expect it's Koku they're staring at,” announced Toiant it ho had attracted the attention He was carrying his own big valise, and a sh they weighed nothing, the trunk being under one aruess they don't see men of his size outside of circuses,” coh not quite h, Toet up a wrestling ested Toiant, as surrounded by a crowd

Koku pushed his way through as easily as a bullof puppies about his heels, and as To the hotel corridor, the chauffeur of the taxicab called out with a laugh:

”I say, boss, don't you think you ought to pay double rates on that chap,” and he nodded in the direction of the giant

”That's right!” added soht have broken the springs”

”All right,” assented To the chauffeur a coin ”Here you are, have a cigar on the giant”

There was h it is doubtful if he knehat about, for he could not understand ed between thean Mr titus when he and Tom sat in the co out at what to him were the marvelous wonders of the New York streets

”It didn'tinventor ”I was about ready to coht of how he had had to send Mary's present to her instead of taking it himself As yet he was all unaware of the coet the powder shi+pht?”

”Yes, and it will be there almost as soon as we Other shi+pments will folloe need thelad you hit on the right kind of powder,” went on the contractor