Take my money from me, and I must needs return to the life I have left--and I would sooner die!" "Tut, tut, boy.

Speak not so wildly; nor think that I will touch a penny of your good father's gold.

I am not sunk so low as that.

Did he ever speak to you of Captain Jack, whom he once saved from the gallows ?" Tom shook his head.

His father had not been a talking man.
"It was years ago now," said the man thoughtfully, "and I did try for long after that to lead a different life; but in the end I came back to the one I love the best--the free life of the road.