“Not a doctor, boy, no, but a lawyer,” spoke Purnell in broken tones. “Boy, the meanest thing I ever did was to rob your mother of her fortune. Let the last thing I can do on earth be to give it back to her.”
Frank remained by the side of the sufferer until early morning. Then Bob Haven came with a telegram from Stet.
“Hurrah! Markham is found!” cried Frank, reading the message. “Stet found him in a coal mine. He was a prisoner.”
“Good for Stet!” said Bob.
“Just what I say. Markham is coming here. Bob, the skies are clearing, it would seem.”
“I am glad of it, Frank.”
The news about Markham was indeed true. He had been kept a prisoner in an abandoned mine by an old man who was a tool of Wacker. The old man had been well-thrashed by Stet and had fled to parts unknown. Markham had quite a story to tell, as we shall soon see.