What do you say ?" "We'll stick together." And the young friends reached their hands toward each other and clasped them in the dim light of Jim Travers's room.
It was an important decision they had reached, and they talked over the matter for a long time.

Each had quite a little sum of money, which they had saved with scrupulous care.

They had good serviceable clothing, with something extra in the way of change.

The executors of Mr.Travers had completed their duty and made their report to court.

As in the case of the Widow Gordon, not a penny was left for the boy, and the house and everything it contained was to pass into the hands of strangers.
Jim Travers and Tom Gordon were occupying their single room on sufferance.
The new-comers were to take possession on the first of the following month, and a hint had been given the boys which it was impossible for them to misunderstand.