"How do you account for his hostility to you?"
Frank briefly recounted the story already known to the reader.
"He can easily be found then."
"I hope you will not arrest him, sir," said Frank. "He has been pretty well punished already, and I don't think he will trouble me again."
"If he does, send for me," and the detective handed Frank his card and address.
"It is fortunate for me," said the telegraph boy, "that you saw him put the money in my pocket."
"You would have experienced some inconvenience; but the story you have told me would have cleared you with the jury."
"My young friend," said the clergyman, "I owe you an apology. I too hastily assumed that you were guilty."
"It looked like it, sir. You were quite justified in what you said. Mr. Haynes did not appear to relish your remarks to him," added Frank, laughing.
"His crime was greater and meaner than the one charged upon you. To steal is certainly a grave offence,—yet sometimes it is prompted by necessity; but a deliberate attempt to fasten a false charge upon a fellow-creature is vastly more atrocious."