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The youth flushed "Oh say!" he cried; "you needn't kid me just because I'ed for the free life of a tra with you for a little while, and teach me, I'll not bother you; and I'll do whatever you say"

The elderly person frowned "Beat it, kid!" he commanded "We ain't runnin' no day nursery These you see here is all the real thing Maybe we asks fer a handout now and then; but that ain't our reg'lar lay You ain't swift enough to travel with this bunch, kid, so you'd better duck Why we gents, here, if as added up is wanted in about twenty-seven cities fer about everything frootta do soents like us, see?" The speaker projected a stubbled jaw, scowled horridly and swept a flattened palle to a hairy aresture of finality

The boy had stood with his straight, black eyebrows puckered into a studious frown, drinking in every word Now he straightened up "I guess I etically "You ain't tras like that" His eyes opened a bit wider and his voice sank to a whisper as the words passed his lips "But you haven't so lar, too," and froreenbacks and jewelry The eyes of the six registered astonishreed "I just robbed a house in Oakdale," explained the boy "I usually rob one every night"

For a le e!" He of the frock coat, golf cap, and years waved a conciliatory hand He tried to look at the boy's face; but for the life of hi wealth clutched in the fingers of those two sled a pearl necklace which alone , at least a lesser member of a royal family, while diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and eht of the fire Nor was the fistful of currency in the other hand to be sneezed at There were greenbacks, it is true; but there were also yellowbacks with the reddish gold of large denoh that was asp