It was salted with Silver Stream gold by some double-damned cunning scoundrel.' 'We know it, Harry, and we have to prove it.

To do that we must have all our wits about us.' 'Yes, mother, we must; but if that man ever is found I hope I may have the handling of him.

Dick!' said the young man, turning suddenly.
Dick came forward somewhat diffidently, like a detected criminal.
'You know all about this business, eh ?' The boy nodded his head solemnly.
'Who do you think worked that dirty trick on my brother ?' asked Harry gravely.
Dick had not thought of the matter in that light, but he answered, without hesitation: 'Ole Tinribs, I expect.' 'Dickie!' cried Mrs.Haddon, reprovingly.
'Why, why, Dick ?' queried the young man.
Oh, I dunno; on'y he seems that sort, don't he ?' Dick had been subjected to a grave indignity at the hands of the superintendent, and was not in a frame of mind to form a just estimate of the character of that good man.
He spoke with the cheerful irresponsibility of youth.
'I'm afraid you won't be much good to us, Copper-top, old man, if you rush at conclusions in that desperate way,' said Harry.
Mrs.Hardy shook an impressive forefinger at the boy.
'You will say nothing to anybody of our intentions, Richard.' 'No,' said Dick simply; but that word given to Mrs.Hardy was a sacred oath, steel-bound and clamped..