"Liar, and fool, and coward--you, you! You'll take care of Tom, will you?
But who'll take care of _you_ ?" He seated himself on the blanketed bed, and picked up the newspaper which he had brought home with him.

He gazed long and steadily at it before he tore it across and flung it on the floor.

It held more news than he had given to Tom Osby.

In brief, there was a paragraph which announced the arrival in town of Mr.John Ellsworth, President of the new A.P.and S.E.Railway, his legal counsel, Mr.Porter Barkley, also of New York, and Miss Constance Ellsworth.

This party was bound for Sky Top, where business of importance would in all likelihood be transacted, as Mr.Ellsworth expected to meet there the engineers on the location of the road.
"I ought not to go," said Dan Anderson to himself, over and over again.
"I _must_ not go.