e a fourth dollar bill, and this note:

For the stateroom. I have told not the others. With thanks of

DOLISKA POD----SKI.

It was a fine, small, pointed, and wandering handwriting, and Jack in
vain strove to make out the letters in the middle of the Polish lady's
name.

"I don't care!" he said. "She's kind, too. So are all the rest of
them; and Mr. Guilderaufenberg's one of the best fellows I ever met.
Now I've got over six dollars, and I can make some more right away."

He pocketed his money, and felt more confident than ever; and he walked
out of the Hotel Dantzic just as his father, at home in Crofield, was
reading to Mrs. Ogden and Aunt Melinda and the children the letter he
had written in Albany, on Saturday.

They all had their comments to make, but at the end of it the tall
blacksmith said to his wife:

"There's one thing certain, Mary. I won't let go of any of that land
till after they've run the railway through it."

"Land?" said Aunt Melinda. "Why, it's nothing but gravel. They can't
do anything with it."

"It joins mine," said Mr. Ogden; "and I own more than an acre behind
the shop. We'll see whether the railroad will make any difference.
Well, the boy's reached the city long before this!"

There was silence for a moment after that, and then Mr. Ogden went over
to the shop. He was not very cheerful, for he began to feel that Jack
was really gone from home.

In Mertonville, Mary Ogden was helping Mrs. Murdoch in her housework,
and seemed to be disposed to look out of the window, rather than to
talk.

"Now, Mary," said the editor's wife, "you needn't look so peaked, and
feel so blue about the way you got along with that class of girls--"

"Girls?" said Mary. "Why, Mrs. Murdoch! Only half of them were
younger than I; they said there would be only sixteen, and there were
twenty-one. Some of the scholars were twice as old as I am, and one
had gray hair and wore spectacles!"

"I don't care," said Mrs. Murdoch, "the Elder said you did well. Now,
dear, dress yourself, and be ready for Mrs. Edwards; she's coming after
you, and I hope you'll enjoy your visit. Come in and see me as often
as you can and tell me the news."

Mary finished the dishes and went upstairs, saying, "And they want me
to take that class again next Sunday!"

CHAPTER XV.

NO BOY WANTED.

After leaving the Hotel Dantzic, with his unexpected supply of money,
Jack walked smilingly down toward the busines