amazed when he learned the truth concerning himself. At first he
could not believe it, but when it came home to him he was overjoyed. He
speedily recovered from the wounds Hardwick had inflicted, and one fine
day in the early part of the following year Horace Sumner and Laura took
him to the elegant mansion which was in future to be his home as well as
theirs.

Hardwick, Allen, Macklin, and Samuels were all tried, and sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment. Parsons escaped, and went to England.

When the police started to find Dick Ferris they found that the tall boy
had shipped on a three years, whaling voyage. To this day he has not
returned to New York.

The recovery of the tin box containing the railroad bonds saved Horace
Sumner from ruin. He and his son are now in partnership on Wall Street,
and trusty Jack McCabe is their office boy. Hal, or Howard, as he is now
called, is rich, and is surrounded by friends, but it is not likely that
he will ever forget the time he came to New York a poor boy, and solved
the mystery of the Missing Tin Box.

THE END

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