Part 3 (2/2)

”You do not know, Partner, what stocks are, but I'll tell you some other time

”When this happened Tom had a little baby boy at home, about two months old Bill loved his brother, and he loved his brother's baby very much

”'Tom,' said Bill, 'I've always stood by you since ere little boys and played in the garden together, and I' to stand by you now If the loss is laid to you it will ruin not only your life but the lives of your wife and your baby I'll say that I took the money and you must not say I did not'

”'No,' said To a sacrifice!'

”'Yes, you will,' said Bill 'It will likely ruin my life, I know, but I'm only one If it's laid on you, three lives will be ruined Just proain'

”Tom promised, and Bill was sure he meant it, and when their father, who had been sent for by the exareed, told his father he had taken the money

”Of course there was a terrible scene Bill was not arrested for his father did not wish the faraced, but he was driven from home, with very little ain

His ot to tell you the boys had a little sister, as ten years old at that ti But his father was very harsh, and told him if he ever came back he would have him arrested and put into prison It was not the loss of the ered him That was a comparatively small amount, which he paid back to the bank and did not ht that one of his boys had taken it”

”What was the little sister's name?” asked Jimmy

”Well, let me see,” said Skipper Ed ”We'll call her Mary”

”Did Bill ever go back?”

”No, he never went back”

”Where did he go?”

”Why, he went to a seaport town and shi+pped as a sailor, and after knocking about the seas for a time he settled in a country much like this where we live He liked the wild country, where he could hunt and fish, and where the people he met were true and honest, and helped each other, instead of always trying to take advantage of one another”

”I'lad he did that,” declared Jimmy ”I wish he lived near us I don't think I'd like to live in a place like he calad Bobby ca are better here than where he came from, too, Partner”

”I don't want to live where the fishi+n' and huntin' isn't fine, and it's fine here”

”Aye, 'tis fine here, and s are fine here Destiny is the Lord's will, and our destiny, Partner, is to live here and be as happy as we can; and now Bobby has come, it seems to be his destiny too”

And so Jimmy had his story, and bedtime had arrived, and the two partners went to bed to be lulled to sleep by the stor about their cabin

CHAPTER IV

OVER A CLIFF

The storm that lulled Skipper Ed and his little partner to sleep also lulled Abel Zachariah and Mrs Abel and Bobby to sleep Bobby's new bed was finished It was half the width of Abel's and Mrs Abel's bed, but it was quite as long, for Bobby was to grow tall, and to beco and brave hunter And, too, for present needs it th to perhts while she crooned him to sleep with her quaint Eskireat care in his handicraft, and derived a vast deal of satisfaction from the result And when Mrs Abel fitted the bunk with a fine feather bed which she oose feathers which she had saved, and spread it arm blankets and tucked Bobby away in it, he, too, see, for he went to sleep at once, and slept as soundly as he could have slept in a bed of carved any, spread with counterpanes of silk and down