He worried the
widow half to death with his strange ways."
"I wonder how the Baxters feel to be locked up?" put in Sam. "I
know Arnold Baxter is used to it, but it's a new experience for
Dan."
"Dan is as bad as his father," broke in Larry Colby, who had
joined the brothers. "I was glad to hear that Mumps had turned
over a new leaf and cut the bully dead."
"Oh, so were all of us!" said Tom. "By the way, do you know where
Mumps is now? In the mining business, out West, acting as some
sort of a clerk."
"A spell in the West will take the nonsense out of him," came from
Dick. "It was a great pity he ever got under Dan Baxter's
influence I wonder how Arnold Baxter is getting along? He was
quite severely wounded, you know, during that tussle on the
yachts."
"He's about over that, so Frank Harrington says," replied Larry.
"I'll wager he is mighty bitter against you fellows for having put
him where he is."
"It was his own, fault, Larry. If a person is going to do wrong
he must take the consequences. Mr. Baxter might today be a fairly
well-to-do mine owner of the West and Dan might be a leading cadet
here. But instead they both threw themselves away -- and now they
must take what comes."
"My father used to say it took all kind of people to make a
world," went on Larry. "But I reckon we could do without the
Baxter and the Buddy Girk kind."
"And the Josiah Crabtree kind," added Sam. "Don't forget that
miserable sneak.
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