Chet had spells of being very good to her, and when he chose to be agreeable it was hard to resist him.
Carm had fallen in with a bad lot, and was going the downward way fast.
In a moment of anger his father turned him out of doors, but Master followed him—he was Nannie's boy.
"Find me a place on the railroad, uncle, and I'll reform," he said.
"For the sake of your dead mother, Carm," Master pled, "change your ways and strive to be a man. She is waiting for her two boys up there. Must I tell her, when I meet her, that they are lost?"
"But I tell you I will reform if I can be engaged in the business I like," the boy persisted.
"It is too dangerous, Carm. Reform first, and then I will try and secure for you the position you desire. You are too young yet, anyway."
"But father has turned me out, I must do something."
"I will pay your bills if you will go to school two years and behave yourself."