“What?” gasped she. “Tell me, quick.”
“He has robbed me of over six hundred dollars. If I ever catch him I’ll flog him within an inch of his life.”
CHAPTER XVI
IN THE SPIDER’S WEB.
Joshua and his friend, Sam Crawford, having selected Niblo’s Theatre as the one which on the whole seemed most attractive, left their boarding house at a quarter past seven o’clock.
“Shall we walk?” asked Joshua.
“No,” said Sam; “it’s too far. We should get there late.”
“How much do they charge in the horse cars?”
“Only five cents,” answered Sam, thinking that Joshua must be mean to trouble himself about such a trifle, and that he might find it a harder job than he anticipated to get money out of him. “That’s cheap enough.”
“Yes,” said Joshua, doubtfully.