“What can you do?”
“I am going to run away!” answered the boy promptly. “I’m going off where he can’t follow, and he’ll never get me—never, never, never!”
CHAPTER XVII.
AWAKENED JEALOUSY.
Little Felicia uttered a cry of horror, her face paling.
“Oh, no, no, Dick!” she exclaimed, getting hold of him with both hands. “You don’t mean that! Why, I’ll never see you again! Oh, Dick! Dick!”
She was filled with fear and distress at the thought, and she clung to him as if afraid that he would start at once.
“Oh, but you will see me again!” he quickly declared. “That is why I am running away. It’s so, after he is gone, I can come back to you.”
“But where will you go? Where can you go?”
“Old Joe knows. I have been with him before. He will take care of me.”
“Old Joe? Then he——”