On the day following the incidents we have related Ike and Jack in company called upon the young lady for whom they had done so great a service. She received them in the little parlor, but she appeared very anxious and careworn, and she said after the usual greetings:
"I am very unhappy."
"You are?"
"I am."
"Why?"
"I cannot remain here with this good lady when I am unable to pay for my board."
"What will you do?" asked Ike, a pleasant brightness in his eyes.
"I do not know what I will do. I am already in her debt."
"You are?"
"Yes; she paid my board bill at the last place when she went with me to get my trunk."