You have done very well, and I shall not charge you anything." "I expected to pay my passage, captain; but if you think I have done enough to pay it, why I have nothing to say, only that I am very much obliged to you." "You ought to be a sailor, young man; you were cut out for one." "I like the sea, though I never saw it till a few weeks since.

But I suppose my mother would not let me go to sea." "I suppose not; mothers are always afraid of salt water." By this time the jolly boat was alongside; and bidding the captain adieu, he jumped into it, and the men pulled him to the pilot boat, which had come up into the wind at the captain's hail.

Bobby was kindly received on board, and in a couple of hours landed at the wharf in Boston.
With a beating heart he made his way up into Washington Street.

He felt strangely; his cheeks seemed to tingle, for he was aware that the imputation of dishonesty was fastened upon him.

He could not doubt but that the story of his alleged crime had reached the city, and perhaps gone to his friends in Riverdale.