“I meant to do the fair thing by you,” he said to Jack, severely, “but now you’ll never get a cent out of me.”
“I’d rather have the law on men like you, than have a thousand of your sort of fair promises,” said Jack.
“I’ve a mind to strike you,” said Gray.
“The Kentucky law is hard on a man who strikes a minor,” said Judge Kane, who had entered at that moment.
Mr. Niles came in to learn what was the matter, and Judge Kane, after listening quietly to the talk of the people, until the excitement subsided, took Jack over to his house, whence the boy trudged home in the late afternoon full of hopefulness.
Gray’s land realized as much as Mr. Beal expected, and Jack studied hard all summer, so as to get as far ahead as possible by the time school should begin in the autumn.