The neighbors had persuaded him to bank it, and he was coming to town the next morning with it, and that night some of them were going to help him mount guard over it.

Father told the men at milking time, and he said Jacobs looked as unconscious as possible.

However, from that day there was a change in him.

He never told father in so many words that he' d resolved to be an honest man, but his actions spoke for him.

He had been a kind of sullen, unwilling fellow, but now he turned handy and obliging, and it was a real trial to father to part with him." Miss Laura was intensely interested in this story.