"You must not think of leaving here until we know what your uncle proposes to do," Mrs. Hargreaves said, as she returned to the dining-room after talking with the neighbor. "Of course I know that neither of you two boys had anything to do with the robbery; but you must not run away."
"I've got to leave, no matter what the old fool says," Sam replied. "I don't know how the folks would get along if I didn't show up, an' it won't do to disappoint them."
"Are you going?" Teddy asked, and Sam replied in a voice which trembled despite all his efforts to make it sound firm:
"Of course I am. You don't allow I'm such an idiot as to stay till he can have me arrested, an' if you're sensible, both of us will go."
"I must stay here, an' lose all my chances of making money," Teddy said, gloomily.
"All right, then I'm off, an' after I once get on the fair grounds I'll bet that old duffer won't get hold of me."
Sam did not propose to lose any time. He had no baggage, and in a very few moments after so deciding he was walking up the road over which the stage would pass, while Teddy, with a heavier heart than he had ever known before, waited for his uncle to send the officers of the law to carry him to prison.
CHAPTER V.
THE FAIR.