You can manage so that nobody will know it; and if they should find it out, it won't make any difference a hundred years hence.

Come, now, I 'll tell you what I 'll do; if you two will go around with us to-day, I 'll give you a quarter of a dollar apiece." Oscar and Alfred, after some little hesitation, yielded to their request, and the four boys started on their tramp.

It was not without many misgivings, however, that Oscar decided to accompany them.

With him, the chances of detection were much greater than with Alfred.

No brothers of the latter attended school, to notice and report his absence.