"What is your business, young man?" she asked.
"Don't you remember me, Mrs. Fox?" asked Harry.
"Land's sake! It aint Harry Vane!" she exclaimed in wonder.
"Yes, it is," answered Harry, smiling. "I hope Mr. Fox and Joel arewell."
"Come in, and I'll call Joel. You've been doing well, aint you?" sheasked, surveying him with eager curiosity.
"I have been very fortunate indeed."
"I thought you was drowned--wrecked on a ship or something."
"If I was, I have come to life again."
"Well, well, it's strange. I'll call Joel."
Joel, who was at the barn, soon entered.
He, too, surveyed Harry curiously.
"How d'y' do?" he said. "I never expected to set eyes on you again. Isthat a gold watch you have?"
"Yes, Joel."
"Let me see it. How much did it cost?"
"A hundred dollars, besides the chain."
"Gosh! Aint that a sight of money! Did you spend all your money on it?"
"No, I bought a chain too."
"To my mind you was very foolish to spend all your hard earnin's thatway! There's no fool like a young fool," said Mrs. Fox severely.
"But, Mrs. Fox, I have some money left."
"How much?" asked Joel eagerly.
"Seven thousand dollars."
"Gosh all Jerusalem! you aint yarnin', be you? Seven thousand dollars!"
"Who's talkin' of seven thousand dollars?" asked a familiar voice, asMr. Fox entered the room.
"Harry Vane says he's worth seven thousand dollars!" exclaimed Joel in atone made up of amazement, jealousy, and wonder.
"Is that true?" asked John Fox in equal amazement.
"Yes, Mr. Fox."
"But how on 'arth----"
Then Harry gave a full explanation, with which I don't propose totrouble the reader, as it would be a twice-told tale.
"Some folks seem born to luck!" said Mr. Fox furiously, when Harry hadcompleted his story. "Joel may work and toil all his life, and he won'tget no seven thousand dollars. It seems hard!"
John Fox had been much impressed by Harry's luck, and his avaricioussoul was busying itself with some scheme for turning it to his personaladvantage.
"I'm glad you've been so lucky, Harry," he said with affectedcordiality. "It beats all, I must say. I've no doubt you are ready nowto carry out your dear father's dyin' wish."
"What was that, Mr. Fox?"
"He wanted me to be your guardeen. It stands to reason a boy of sixteenaint to be trusted with so much money. Now I'm an experienced man ofbusiness, and I'm willin' to be your guardeen, and I won't charge you acent for takin' care of your property except board money."
"Thank you, Mr. Fox," said Harry, with an amused smile, "but I amoffered a place in New York at fifteen dollars a week, and I havefriends who will advise me about the investment of my money."
"Fifteen dollars a week!" repeated Mr. Fox dolefully. "Can't you get aplace for Joel in the same store?"
"If I can find Joel a satisfactory place in the city I will do so," saidHarry, "but I ought to say that my employer only pays me high wages outof favor."
"I'll take ten," said Joel eagerly. "You know you and me was alwaysfriends, Harry."
"Joel always liked you," said politic Mr. Fox.
Harry knew better, but he was on good terms with the world, and he didnot dispute this statement.
"I'll do what I can," he said. "Meanwhile, Mr. Fox, I should like tomake Joel and his sister a small present."
He gave them each a ten-dollar bill, which made Joel's eyes sparkle withjoy.
Mr. Fox renewed his suggestion that Harry select him as a "guardeen,"but Harry politely but firmly declined to entertain the proposal.Nevertheless, when he left the house, he was warmly urged to come againand often. He understood the reason of the cordiality, and knew verywell that if he had come back poor his reception would have been verydifferent.
Before going back to New York he made a visit of a couple of days to hisold friend and employer, Professor Hemmenway, the prestidigitateur, whowas delighted with the success of his young friend. He offered Harry anew engagement, but of course it was declined.
In New York he met Jack, and inquired how he had fared.
"I found my step-father dying," answered Jack. "In fact he drank himselfto death after wasting all mother's property. But I have bought her asmall house, and insured her an income sufficient to keep hercomfortable. The last will require some of my principal, but I shall beearning good wages, and can make it up when I return home."
"When do you sail, Jack?"
"Next week, on one of Mr. Woolson's ships. I am to go to China."
"I hope you'll steer clear of the island we were wrecked on, Jack."
"I never want to see it again, Harry; still it brought us luck."
"I shall be sorry to part with you, Jack. I wish you could be content tostay in New York."
"No, Harry, I can't give up the sea yet. It is my great ambition tocommand a ship myself some time."
"I think you will accomplish it, Jack, for you stand well with theowners."
Five years have passed. Harry and Jack are each twenty-one. Harryoccupies a confidential position with the firm, and is likely to be apartner before he is much older. Jack is first mate, and will be acaptain before he is twenty-five. His mother is living, and happy in hissuccess, and enjoying the comfortable home he has provided for her.
Harry obtained a position for Joel in the city, but he provedunsatisfactory to his employer and was soon discharged. Anothersituation he held as brief a time. At last he was obliged to go home andassist his father, who treats him almost as penuriously as he would havedone Harry. Joel is dissatisfied and unhappy, and his mother thinks hewas born to bad luck, but those who know Joel think his want of successsprings from a different source. Harry and Jack obtained success becausethey deserved it. If Joel were more like them he too might succeed. AndI am sorry to say he is looking forward impatiently to the time when heshall inherit his father's property. It is very wrong, but perhaps Mr.Fox himself is partly to blame.
Whenever Jack comes home from a voyage he calls upon Harry, and togetherthey talk over their adventures in a New World. Sometimes Obed Stackpolecalls also. He has two boys, whom he has named respectively Harry andJack in honor of his two companions in Australia.
THE END.
THE
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BY
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No author of the present day has become a greater favorite with boysthan "Harry Castlemon;" every book by him is sure to meet with heartyreception by young readers generally. His naturalness and vivacity leadhis readers from page to page with breathless interest, and when onevolume is finished the fascinated reader, like Oliver Twist, asks "formore."
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GUNBOAT SERIES. By Harry Castlemon. 6 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated.Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7 50Frank, the Young Naturalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25Frank in the Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25Frank on the Prairie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25Frank on a Gunboat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25Frank before Vicksburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25Frank on the Lower Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25
GO AHEAD SERIES. By Harry Castlemon. 3 vols., 12mo. Fully illustrated.Cloth, extra, printed in colors. In box . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3 75Go Ahead; or, The Fisher Boy's Motto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25No Moss; or, The Career of a Rolling Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25Tom Newcombe; or, The Boy of Bad Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25
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OUR FELLOWS; or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons. By Harry Castlemon.16mo. Fully illustrated. Cloth, extra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 25
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