A FRIEND.
The baggage-master immediately displayed the utmost sympathy for the victim of the old fakir's seductive scheme, and Sam was loud in his denunciations of a brother in the craft who would serve them in such a shabby manner.
"You leave him to me, an' I'll show you what can be done," that young gentleman said, and Teddy replied, reproachfully:
"I've left too much to you already. If you hadn't thought it was necessary to make the acquaintance of every fellow who was going to the fair I'd have my fifteen dollars in my cap now."
"I'll get them back for you."
"How?"
"I can't say jest now; but you wait an' see what I can do."
Inasmuch as Teddy must account first to his mother and afterward to Uncle Nathan for that amount, the confident assertion of his friend failed to give him any mental relief, and he said, quite sharply:
"You thought it was all right to give the money to him, an' if you didn't know any more than a country boy who'd never even heard of such fellows, I can't see how you can do much toward helping."
At this point the baggage-master, who had been listening to the conversation, broke in with the sage remark: