“Thank you!” said Andy, modestly. “I don’t know about that.”
“Not many boys would have stood a midnight siege as well as you did.”
“I was in more danger this morning,” said Andy, quietly.
“How?” asked the teller and the other employees of the bank, who had heard Andy’s statement, and came up to hear what he had to say.
“I was stopped by a highwayman this morning, on my way from Hamilton.”
“You don’t say so! Was it the same one?”
“No; it was a younger man. I suppose you haven’t heard of that?” he added, smiling.
“No; we shall get our information from the chief actor in the adventure. How was it?”
Andy told his story, and the narration increased the high opinion which the bank officials already had begun to entertain of his courage and shrewdness.
“That was a capital idea—having a decoy wallet with you,” said Mr. Smith, the receiving teller.