"Not if they, knowed it!" "Perhaps not," agreed the Captain, nonplussed by the lad's logic and knowledge of human nature.

"No, I don't think they would." "No, sir; that they wouldn't," exclaimed the runaway triumphantly, as if he knew all about that matter at any rate.

"So, sir, I waits down by the side o' the line, where I lays hid, sir, without nobody a-seeing me; and then, jist as the train was started and quite clear o' the station, a-going into the tunnel as ain't fur off, as yer know, sir-- ?" "Yes, I know the line, my lad," said Captain Dresser.

"I ought to!" "Well, sir, there I climbs on by the buffers and coupling-chain of the guard's van to the step of the end carriage, and works myself along till I reaches this; when, drawing myself up and looking in through the windy, I thought I would get in here, not seeing nobody but young ma- aster and little missis in the corner--" "You didn't see me, eh ?" questioned the Captain, with one of his quizzical chuckles.

"You didn't see me, I'll wager." "No, sir, or I wouldn't have tried it on," confessed Dick, with the most open candour.