"Goin' to try to get a place?"

"If any good chance offers I shall accept it--that is, if father and
mother are willing."

"Let's take a seat together--that's what I'm going for myself."






CHAPTER VI

GRANT GETS INTO UNEXPECTED TROUBLE





TOM CALDER was not the companion Grant would have chosen, but there
seemed no good excuse for declining his company. He belonged to a
rather disreputable family living in the borders of the village. If
this had been all, it would not have been fair to object to him, but
Tom himself bore not a very high reputation. He had been suspected
more than once of stealing from his school companions, and when
employed for a time by Mr. Tudor, in the village store, the latter
began to miss money from the till; but Tom was so sly that he had
been unable to bring the theft home to him. However, he thought it