So he answered, evasively: "Another boy took it.

I shall get another this afternoon." "Are you with the padrone ?" "Yes." "Come, Lucia," said the man, roughly, ceasing to play, "we must go on." Lucia followed her companion obediently, reluctant to leave Phil, with whom she desired to converse longer; but the latter saw that her guardian did not wish the conversation to continue, and so did not follow.
This unexpected meeting with Lucia gave him much to think of.

It carried back his thoughts to his humble, but still dear, Italian home, and the mother from whom he had never met with anything but kindness, and a longing to see both made him for the moment almost sad.

But he was naturally of a joyous temperament, and hope soon returned.
"I will save money enough to go home," he said to himself.

"It will not take very much--not more than fifty dollars.