"I didn't bring anything with me."
"That's all right, then. I was afraid that duck in the seat with you might have got away with your stuff."
Al laughed.
"That was a clergyman," he said—"the Rev. Dr. Ferguson."
"Reverend nothing," grinned the brakeman. "Say, young man, you must be from 'way back."
"Why?"
"Why, that fellow is one of the cleverest confidence men in the country."
"Do you know what you are talking about?" asked the boy, in amazement.
"You can bet I do. Oh, he has fooled sharper ones than you or I. You didn't lend him anything, did you?"
"I did not."