"I did not," said Peter, hastily, "he had already been paid in full."
"Take care, Peter, or I may tell what it was for."
"I defy you," said the miser in a quavering tone of defiance. "You are a bad man."
"Perhaps you don't know who this boy is?" said Randall.
"Who is he?" asked Peter, doubtfully.
"He is one who has reason to consider you his enemy," said Randall, "even more than myself."
At this unexpected statement Bill Sturdy and Charlie looked at each other in surprise.
"Do you know this old man, then, Charlie?" asked Sturdy, at length.
"Yes," said our hero; "it is Mr. Manson, of whom my mother used to hire a room."
"The landlord?"