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Follow My leader

CHAPTER THREE
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Come, settle up, young gentlemen, please.

The Templeton boys I'm used to always fork out like gentlemen." Dick took out his purse, and produced five-and-sixpence, which he gave the driver, just as the door opened and the school matron presented herself.
"Is that your cab ?" said she, pointing to the receding hansom.
"Yes, ma'am." "How much did he charge you ?" "Five shillings, ma'am." The lady uttered an exclamation of mingled wrath and contempt.

"It's double his right fare.

Run quick, and you'll catch him." Heathcote started to run, shouting meekly, and waving his hand to the man to stop.
But the man good-humouredly declined the invitation, raising his hat gallantly to the lady, and putting his tongue into his cheek, as he touched the horse up into a trot, and rattled out of the square.
Heathcote returned rather sheepishly, and the two friends followed the lady indoors feeling that their entry into Templeton had been anything but triumphant.
"The idea!" said the matron, partly to herself and partly to the boys, "of his landing you and all your luggage on the pavement like that, and then going off, before I came.

He knew well enough I should have seen he only got his right fare.


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