Part 8 (1/2)
”Well, you'll have to cooing off on another trip next Monday”
”Is that so? Then I'lad I met you as I did, because I wanted to see you before you went away I've got soe news to tell you”
”What is it?”
”Link Merwell is alive He wasn't killed in that landslide at all,” was Nat Poole's astonishi+ng reply
CHAPTER VI
NEWS OF IMPORTANCE
”Link Merwell!”
”Nat, you !” put in Ben
”Why, we couldn't find a single trace of him after that awful landslide!” went on Dave ”Weabout that,” returned the money-lender's son
”But I know Link Merwell is alive I got a letter from him yesterday”
”Are you sure that it was not an old letter delayed in delivery?”
queried Ben
”No, it was not an old letter It was dated only a few days ago It was sent to me from Boston”
”Boston!” cried Laura ”Then he must not only be alive, but heabout Job Haskers?” queried our hero
”He said he didn't knohat had become of Haskers He said they had separated a short while before the big landslide struck them He was pretty well bruised up, and had to rest in a littlecamp up in the est news yet,” was Dave's coht sure that he and Haskers had been sed up in that landslide, along with that miner ith theht you toldit”
”So I did destroy it, Dave, without answering it,” returned the money-lender's son ”I was as surprised to hear froh to let me alone”
”What did he have to say, Nat?” questioned Ben ”Of course you haven't got to tell us if you don't want to,” he added, hastily
”That's all right Didn't I tell you I was coot it in ht forth the co one which need not be reproduced here In it Link Merwell told soht in the landslide, and how he had escaped and had been carried by some miners to their camp A search had been , but without results Then Merwell had obtained some money (probably from his father), and had come East, where he expected to obtain a position He added that he was still as bitter as ever against Dave and his chums, and would do his best some day to ”square accounts”
As in his previous communication to Nat, he wanted to know if thetrouble for our hero
”The same old Link Merwell!” re over his shoulder
”Wouldn't you think a felloho had been so close to death would want to reform?” said his chum ”But I suppose Link doesn't knohat the word, 'reform,' means”