"Thank you, sir," said Frank, feeling almost cordial to his step-father; "but it won't be long, and I shall write home regularly."
During the evening Frank kept Sharpley busy telling him about foreign parts. Mr. Craven listened, with a crafty smile, watching him as a spider does an entangled fly.
"He's trapped!" he said to himself
Poor Frank! How little could he read of the future!
CHAPTER XII.
TWO BOY FRIENDS.
"Going to Europe, Frank!" repeated his friend, Ben Cameron, in unbounded astonishment. "I can hardly believe it."
"I can hardly believe it myself; but it's true."
"How did it come about?"