Part 22 (2/2)
”Sure, Roger, and if you can join me I'll like it first-rate”
An hour later Dave was on the train and speeding towards Crumville He had sent word ahead when he would arrive, and at the station he found the Wadsworth sleigh, with Caspar Potts and Jessie Wadsworth awaiting hih his forray and white Jessie, round-cheeked and rosy, was the picture of health and beauty
”There he is! There's Dave!” cried the miss, and leaped to the sidewalk to shake hands
”Why, how tall you are getting, Jessie,” said the boy, and then blushed, for the handshake she gave him was a very cordial one ”How do you do, Professor?” And he shook hands with the er years
”I am very well indeed, Dave,” answered Professor Potts ”Will you sit up here by me, or with Miss Jessie?”
”Dave must come in with me,” said Jessie, promptly
”Didaround, for he had fully expected to see his relative
”No, he has a touch of rheumatism in his left knee,” answered Caspar Potts
”That's too bad”
Dave assisted Jessie to a seat and then got in beside her, and tucked in the handsoait, past the stores of the town and then in the direction of the Wadsworth ht him a lucky boy--and he certainly was lucky, and thankful for it
The reeted by Mrs Wadsworth, and, later on, by Mr Wadsworth, who had been to his large jewelry works on business The lad found his Uncle Dunston in his roo on a low stool
”It's not so very bad, Dave,” said Dunston Porter, after their greeting was over ”I hope to be around again before long But it is too bad it should coo to London with you”
Dave sat down, and a conversation lasting the best part of an hour ensued The boy told all he knew about Nick Jasniff, and showed the letter which Gus Plura of satisfaction
”I even sent a et it cashed, but the order has not been called for The money was cabled to London and then put in a letter for the General Delivery depart shady, or otherwise he has left the city or is living under an assumed name”
”I know pretty o to the theater, and he was a great chap to bowl If I go over there I a places, if there are any, and take a look in at the different theaters If he is in London I ought to run across hi him by letter and by a notice in the newspapers, too”
Dave was a very busy boy for the next few days, perfecting his plans to visit England Yet he ed to spend several happy hours with the others and especially with Jessie, who now acted ht a great deal of the rich hter, and Jessie seeether, or play gaet us when you are in London,” said Jessie ”I want you to send me some postal cards--the picture kind”
”I'll send you one every day,” replied Dave ”The very nicest I can find”
”With pictures of the places you visit?”
”Yes”
”Then you must tell me about the places in your letters”
”Do you want me to write?”
”Of course, and I'll write too,” said Jessie, and gave hi afterwards--when he was in London and in the far northland--and it always brightened him in spirits