Well, I suppose you want to be shipped back to Stockton ?" "No!" said the boy, recovering his voice with an effort.
"Eh, that's business, though.

Know anybody here ?" "Not a living soul; that's why they sent me," said the boy, in sudden reckless desperation.

He was the more furious that he knew the tears were standing in his eyes.
The idea seemed to strike the man amusingly.

"Looks a little like it, don't it ?" he said, smiling grimly at the paper before him.

"Got any money ?" "A little." "How much ?" "About twenty dollars," said Clarence hesitatingly.