"No more nonsense! Stop the horse, and I'll relieve you of the box."
"But what will Mr. Nixon say?"
"Tell him it was taken from you."
"Oh, this is terrible! Won't you take ten dollars and let me go?"
"No; I must have the whole. Stop the horse, I say!"
With an appearance of great reluctance Gerald obeyed directions and halted the horse.
The tramp descended from the wagon.
"Now hand me the box," he said.
Gerald allowed him to take out the box. Then he whipped up the horse, leaving the tramp, as he supposed, master of the situation.
He laughed as he saw Gerald driving off.