"But father said she was very poor."
"At any rate this money belongs to her."
"Where are you going to travel?"
"Out West."
This was all the information Mark would give. Edgar reported the conversation to his father, who was also perplexed.
"Mark Mason is a strange boy," he said. "I don't understand him."
CHAPTER XXVII.
LAST INSTRUCTIONS.
Mark had intended to find a new and more comfortable place for his mother, being dissatisfied with their humble rooms in St. Mark's Place, but the journey he was called upon so unexpectedly to make, led to a postponement of this plan.
"You can move, mother, if you like," said Mark, after placing the hundred dollars in her hands. "You'll have money enough."
"That's true, Mark, but you wouldn't know how to address me, and I might lose some of your letters. I shall be satisfied to stay here till you return. But do you think you had better go? You are very young to cross the continent alone."