Tony laughed.
"I don't think he would let me into the house if I were," he said. "He would be suspicious of me."
"Then how does it happen that you were with him?"
Tony explained.
"He has been repaid for taking you in," said the doctor. "I'll put on my hat, and go right over with you."
After Tony left the house, old Ben lay and tormented himself with the thought that the boy would never come back. "Just as like as not," he thought, "he will go off with the money, and leave me here to die."
Then he tried to sit up, but without success.
Half an hour later he was relieved by seeing the door open, and Tony enter. But he looked dismayed when he saw the doctor.
"What did you come for?" he asked, peevishly.