CHAPTER VII.
IN WHICH JACK RESTORES THE OBLONG YELLOW ENVELOPE AND ITS CONTENTS TO ITS OWNER.
Of course Jack had a budget of interesting news to tell his mother and sister at the supper table that night.
“Oh, Jack! How could you do it?” exclaimed Annie when he described how he grabbed the loaded revolver just as Oliver Bird fired it.
“Well, sis, I never stopped to consider why I did it—the whole thing was over in a moment.”
“And you actually saved the man’s life?”
“Mr. Bird is sure of it, and that’s the way the evening papers put it, so——”
“What! Is it printed in the paper? Let me see,” cried his sister, excitedly.
Jack pointed out the article to her, and she began to read it with a great deal of interest.
“But that isn’t all that happened to me,” grinned the lad, with his mouth full of Irish stew.