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Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"The Cash Boy"

Next, it would explain John Wade's anxiety to get rid of him. It's my belief that John Wade has recognized in this boy the baby he got rid of fourteen years ago, and is afraid his uncle will make the same discovery."


? ? ? ? Frank left the crevice through which he had received so much information in a whirl of new and bewildering thoughts.


? ? ? ? "Was it possible," he asked himself, "that he could be the grandson of Mr. Wharton, his kind benefactor?"




Chapter XX - The Escape


? ? ? ? It was eight o'clock the next morning before Frank's breakfast was brought to him.


? ? ? ? "I am sorry you have had to wait," the housekeeper said, as she appeared at the door with a cup of coffee and a plate of beefsteak and toast, "I couldn't come up before."


? ? ? ? "Have the men gone away?" said Frank.


? ? ? ? "Yes."


? ? ? ? "Then I have something to tell you. I learned something about myself last night. I was in the closet, and heard the man who brought me here talking to another person.


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