“I won’t pay it!” said the old man, obdurately.
“You won’t, eh? Then I’ll attach your farm.”
Finally Joshua Starr had to pay the lawyer’s charge, and I think the verdict of my young readers will be: “Served him right.”
Two days afterward, to the astonishment of every one except his mother and Dr. Euclid, whom he took into his confidence, Andy Gordon left Hamilton, and was not seen in the village again for several weeks.
Where he went, and what he did, will be explained in succeeding chapters.
CHAPTER XXVI.
ANDY’S NEW NAME.
Andy had to consider what name he would assume in place of his own.
His mother did not like the idea of his changing his name.
“It looks as if you had something to be ashamed of,” she said.