ned
under the eye of his father through the day. In the evening he packed
his valise for the journey, and the next morning he started for
Brookdale with his uncle.

A day or two after Oscar's departure, Ned was arrested in the act of
picking a lady's pocket at a railroad depot. Being unable to obtain
bail, he was committed for trial. When his case came up in court, he
was brought in guilty; and it appearing, from the testimony of the
officers, that, though young, he was quite old in crime, he was
sentenced to one year in the House of Correction.

Oscar never ascertained the nature of Ned's "grand speculation," and
probably it was well for him that he did not. Had he been let into the
secret, and had the scheme been carried into effect at the time it was
first talked of, I might have been obliged to add another and a still
sadder chapter to the history of "THE BOY WHO HAD HIS OWN WAY."

[1] The New York Penitentiary.

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