"I am afraid I shall inconvenience you," said Mr. Whitney.
"Not at all," said Dick, promptly. "We have plenty of room, and I shall be glad to have an opportunity of obliging one to whom I am indebted for past kindness."
Mr. Whitney was assisted into the carriage, and they resumed their drive, deviating from their course somewhat, in order to leave him at the house of the friend with whom he was stopping.
"I am very glad to have met Frank again," thought Dick: "I always liked him."
CHAPTER XXV.
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
Mark remained in the bookstore on the same footing as before. He was not old enough to succeed to Rowell's vacant place, but Mr. Baker, as a mark of his satisfaction with him, and partly also to compensate for the temporary suspicions which he had entertained of his honesty, advanced his wages a dollar a week. He therefore now received four dollars, which yielded him no little satisfaction, as it enabled him to pay a larger share of his expenses.
They were all seated in Richard Hunter's pleasant room in St. Mark's Place one evening, when Dick said suddenly:—