"We'll raise it!"
"Good! that is just what I knew you would do, pards, and I will head the list with five hundred," said Landlord Larry.
"Put me down for five hundred," called out Harding, and the two offers were cheered, while a stern voice called out behind the landlord:
"Put me down for a thousand, Larry, for I have heard all that you have told the men."
It was Doctor Dick, who, seeing the crowd in front of the hotel, had come to the piazza by passing into the house through the rear door.
Another cheer greeted the sum named by Doctor Dick, and there arose cries on all sides as men pressed forward:
"I'll give a thousand, landlord!"
"Name me for fifty."
"Put me on the list for a hundred!"
"Twenty-five for me!"