But the funny part of it is to come." "O, there's a funny part to it, is there ?" I remarked bitterly.
"Yes.

The moment Bill Conway saw the advertisement, he knew it was Harry Blake who cut that letter H on the bench; so off he rushes up to Wingate--kind of him, wasn't it ?--and claims the reward.

'Too late, young man,' says old Wingate, 'the culprits has been discovered.' You see Sly-boots hadn't any intention of paying that five dollars." Jack Harris's statement lifted a weight from my bosom.

The article in the Rivermouth Barnacle had placed the affair before me in a new light.
I had thoughtlessly committed a grave offence.

Though the property in question was valueless, we were clearly wrong in destroying it.