CHAPTER IV.
UNCLE NATHAN.
When Teddy reached the depot he was not obliged to hunt very long for Sam, for that young gentleman crept out from behind a pile of baggage on seeing his friend was alone, and asked, in a hoarse whisper:
"What did that feller do to you?"
"Nothing; but that don't prove we should get out of another scrape so easily, and you must be careful, or we'll be in no end of trouble before the fair is ended."
"I was only tryin' to catch your money."
"It surely wouldn't have done any harm if you had found out whether that was the man or not before you started the whole crowd after him."
"That's right, rub it into a feller when he tries to do you a good turn," Sam said, sarcastically, and then remembering an instant later that he proposed to be this boy's guest, he added, "I was only lookin' out for you, an' so long as there's been no harm done we needn't talk about it. Do you still mean to walk home?"
"There's nothing else to be done, if we want to get to the Run to-night, for the stage left while we were chasing that man."
This was exactly what he did not want to do; but, under the circumstances, there was no help for it, and the young gentleman who expected to form such a prominent portion of the fair set out by the side of the friend whom he had injured while thinking to do him a favor.