"
"I am afraid you are working too hard."
"I shouldn't like to keep it up, but it is only for a short time.
If I gave up school I should find it easy enough, but I don't
want to do that."
"No, I hope you won't; I should miss you, and so would all
the boys."
"Including Randolph Duncan?"
"I don't know about that. By the way, I hear that Randolph is
spending a good deal of his time at Tony Denton's billiard saloon."
"I am sorry to hear it. It hasn't a very good reputation."
One day Luke happened to be at the depot at the time of the
arrival of the train from New York. A small, elderly man stepped
upon the platform whom Luke immediately recognized as John
Armstrong, the owner of the missing box of bonds. He was
surprised to see him, having supposed that he was still in Europe.
Mr. Armstrong, as already stated, had boarded for several weeks
during the preceding summer at Groveton.
He looked at Luke with a half-glance of recognition.
"Haven't I seen you before?" he said. "What is your name?"
"My name is Luke Larkin. I saw you several times last summer."
"Then you know me?"
"Yes, sir, you are Mr. Armstrong.
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