Tom Harper was not a sensitive boy, but his face flushed with
indignation and shame, and he made no offer to take the money.

"Keep your quarter, Randolph Duncan," he said scornfully. "I think
you're the meanest specimen of a boy that I ever came across. Any
boy is a fool to be your friend. I don't care to keep company with
you any longer."

"This to me!" exclaimed Randolph, angrily. "This is the pay I
get for condescending to let you go with me."

"You needn't condescend any longer," said Tom, curtly, and he
crossed to the other side of the street.

Randolph looked after him rather uneasily. After all, he was
sorry to lose his humble follower.

"He'll be coming round in a day or two to ask me to take him back,"
he reflected. "I would be willing to give him ten cents more, but
as for giving him the watch, he must think me a fool to part with
that."



CHAPTER IV

LUKE'S NIGHT ADVENTURE