Part 5 (1/2)

”How long do you think it will take him?”

”About a year,all these lawless ot to I don't see any other way out of it”

”And you were going to Texas to get another start? Texas is a country in which allup who have made a failure, and you were bound that way”

”Yes, sir I think I could make another start there”

”Have you any relatives or friends living there?”

”Not a soul,” replied To down at the river ”By the way,” he added, ”I want to give you a piece of advice Those ht have threatened to have it all back if they have to kill you”

”Who told you that story?” said Mr Bolton, with a smile

”The barber”

”Well, they will have plenty of time to try their hands at it between here and Cincinnati I told therower so with me, they will have their hands full There are three of theot the oes the breakfast-bell I will talk to you again after we go in”

Tom was disappointed in more respects than one when he found that his new friend was to leave hi a little ti-hall, but went into the barber shop and proceeded to wash his hands When they had been dried to his satisfaction, he went out and drew up before the desk

”Who is that o?” he asked

”He's a gaot into those fellows last night, didn't he?”

That was just what Tom was afraid of He went out and took his seat at the table, saw Bolton exchange courtesies with the three sharpers who had tried to fleece hih the meal, and told himself that if that was the style that reat deal to learn before he could beco about hientlearded as good advice, and he did not knohat else he had to say to hiht Toood deal, is sometimes flush to-day and strapped to-o back to my uncle If I aet over flinging his gibes at me; but if I aet over it He can advise o ho over, Tom pushed back his chair and went out and seated hiambler did not put in an appearance for fifteen ood fortune to take away his appetite He caars, one of which he offered to Tom But the latter did not smoke

”You'll need an overcoat, Toar and placed his heels upon the railing ”The country you have just cooing It's only the latter part of December, and you'll find blizzards out there, I bet you”

”But I can't afford an overcoat, Mr Bolton I have only fifty dollars, and it is all otten that I have been in trouble--I et that way, I'd feel et you one in Memphis, and at the same time I will tell the clerk to hand you two hundred dollars for your own”

”I can't take it, Mr Bolton,” said Tom, astonished at the proposition

”Oh, yes, you can You never may be able to return it to , and you have enough and to spare, I want you to hand it to him That's all the pay I ask I've owed this for a year, and this is the first chance I have had to square up with the felloho gave it to me”

”Where is the fello?”

”I don't knohether he is living or dead He was a good fellow, and when I told hiot in with a party of roughs and been cleaned out of my pile, he put his hand into his pocket and pulled out two hundred dollars I told him I never could pay him back, and he said if I ever found soive him a lift I've done it, and it squares o on withup the Ohio River to Cincinnati?”