"Well, I won't let this chance to be revenged on Dave slip by unimproved, now I tell you." "We can take revenge in a better way than that.

We've got just as good a hold on him now as we want, and we'll make him promise that he will make no effort to catch those quails." "O, I am no longer interested in that quail business," said Bob, loftily.

"I'd rather have three hundred and sixty dollars than seventy-five." "But you must remember that you haven't been appointed mail carrier yet, so you are by no means sure of your three hundred and sixty dollars.

And even if you were, it would be worth your while to earn the seventy-five dollars, if you could, for that amount of money isn't to be found on every bush." Lester went on to tell his friend of a bright idea that had just then occurred to him, and before he had fully explained how the events of the night could be made to benefit them, he had won Bob over to his way of thinking.

The latter promised that he would say nothing to his father about the theft of which Godfrey had been guilty, until he and Lester had first told David of it and noted the effect it had upon him.