CHAPTER XXIX.
HARRY FORMS HIS PLANS.
A week slipped away very pleasantly. Mr. Lindsay was considerably occupied by business, but he seemed satisfied to trust Maud to the companionship of Harry. Together they went about the city sight-seeing. They visited the several pleasure-grounds in the immediate neighborhood of the city, among them the Carlton and Fitzroy Gardens. Maud freely declared that she had never had so good a time in her life. Harry also enjoyed it; but every now and then the thought would force itself upon him that he ought to be doing something. At present he was penniless, and but for the liberality of Mr. Lindsay would have hardly known what to do. Besides this, he felt that he ought to be earning money to get home with. He could not help feeling anxious about his mother and sister.
So one evening, after they had returned from an excursion to the Yan Yean Water-works, about eighteen miles distant from the city, Harry ventured to ask an interview with Mr. Lindsay.
“Maud, you may go out a few minutes,” said her father, “while Harry speaks with me.”
“He won’t mind me. Will you, Harry?”
“A little,” said our hero.
“I didn’t know you had any secrets from me,” said Maud, reproachfully.
“The secret is not a very great one,” said Harry. “I may tell you afterwards.”
“Now, Harry,” said Mr. Lindsay, after Maud had left the room.