"I said I'd pay for them if I sold them."
"Then you don't get any money," said Nat, sharply, to the newsboy. "Now let this boy alone, do you hear?"
"Ah! wait till I catch him alone," muttered the newsboy, and ran off around the corner.
CHAPTER XXVI
FRED GIVES UP CITY LIFE
"Now then, Fred, tell me how it is that you are in New York," said Nat, when the newsboy had departed.
"I—I ran away from home."
"Did you have the carfare to this city?"
"No, I stole a ride to Cleveland on a freight train, and then I stole another ride on two trains to New York. I was kicked off of one train."