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"You see, Ti all the ti a cent of it, not so as you can notice though that Mrs Suhteen hundred a year out of lad to get the leavings of firerowing What's ten per cent, on twenty dollars?"

Ti heat-waves of the desert and tried to solve the proble Dick demanded irritably

"Huh!--two million, of course"

"Well, five per cent's half of ten per cent What does twenty million earn at five per cent, for one year?"

Ti Dick cried "At that rate I' on to it, and listen to o back--but not for years an' years--we'll fix it up, you and I When I say the word, you'll write to your father He'll ju, pick me up, and cart me back Then he'll collect the thirty thousand reward frouardians, quit the police force, and most likely start a saloon"

"Thirty thousand's a hell of a lot of ratitude

"Not to oes into a million thirty-three times, and a an never lived to see his father a saloon keeper Two days later, on a trestle, the lads were fired out of an empty box-car by a brake-man who should have known better The trestle spanned a dry ravine Young Dick looked down at the rocks seventy feet below and demurred

"There's room on the trestle," he said; "but what if the train starts up?"

"It ain't goin' to start--beat it while you got tiine's takin' water at the other side She always takes it here"

But for once the engine did not take water The evidence at the inquest developed that the engineer had found no water in the tank and started on Scarcely had the two boys dropped from the side-door of the box-car, and before they hadthe narroay between the train and the abyss, than the train began toDick, quick and sure in all his perceptions and adjustments, dropped on the instant to hands and knees on the trestle This gave hi andof the box-cars Ti, also overco to hands and knees, reht to flare his opinion of the brakeman, to the brakeman, in lurid and ancestral terms