"So you're going to break in on the principal, are you? That's a poor way of doing."
"Oh, we'll get along well enough," said Harry. "Two hundred and sixty dollars is a good deal of money. Good-by! I must get on. Come up, Selim!"
"Good-by!" said George; and he spurred up his horse and rode off gayly.
But not so Harry. He was quite depressed in spirits by George's remarks. He wished he had not met him, and he determined that he would not bother his head by looking at the matter as George did. It was ridiculous.
But the more he thought of it, the more sorry he felt that he had met George Purvis.
CHAPTER XXIX
Once more in the Woods.
"Harry," said Kate, the next day after this meeting, "when are you going to get your gun back?"