"He treated you mighty bad for a brother's child."
"My father was poor and Uncle Mark has taken care of me for years. He wanted me to marry my cousin, Homer Bulson, and it made him angry when I refused."
"Homer Bulson!" cried Nelson. "I don't wonder you didn't want to marry him."
"Do you know my cousin?"
"I've met him. He tried to cheat a friend of mine out of a sale of some books. He acted the sneak."
"It seems my uncle's heart has been set on this marriage," went on Gertrude.
"But that didn't give him the right to call you a thief," put in our hero warmly.
"To be sure it did not. But—but—who are you?"
"I'm Nelson."
"You said that before. What is your real name?"