hey lived.

Fred could now dream his dreams of some time going to college, when he
had arrived at the topmost round of the ladder as represented in the
Riverport school course. And there were a host of other things that
seemed much closer to his hand now than they had ever been before.

As they had become dearly attached to their little cottage home, the
Fentons, instead of moving into a larger and more comfortable house,
simply purchased the one they lived in. After certain improvements had
been completed they had as fine a house as any one in all Riverport, and
with a location on the bank of the pretty Mohunk second to none.

Hiram was uneasy away from the mining camps, and after a while said
good-bye to his Riverport friends. He had made over to his brother
Arnold certain property he had accumulated; so that both Sarah and her
father felt that they would never again experience the pinch of
poverty.

These two friends of Fred were always delighted whenever he and any of
his chums took a notion to run up, and pay them a little visit. And many
times did the girl speak of that dreadful day when her calls from the
bottom of the well reached the ears of the cross-country runners,
bringing aid to herself and her sick parent. They would never forget
what Fred and Bristles had done for them.

Gabe Larkins was a different boy from what he had been in the past.
Everybody thought well of him now; and his mother, no longer fearing
that the change in his character indicated a fatal sickness, became very
proud of her boy. And Gabe has a good word to say for Fred Fenton, and
Bristles Carpenter as well; for he knows just how much those two boys
had to do with influencing Miss Muster to forgive his taking of her
opals, before he saw the new light.

For several days Buck Lemington was not seen about Riverport. Only a few
knew that he was up at Arnold Masterson's farm, really in hiding until
his father's wrath blew over; and that he had taken his little brother
along in order to the better bring the "governor" to terms.

When the Alaska claims business had been finally adjusted in a
satisfactory manner, and Squire Lemington could once more remember that
he had not seen either of his boys for some days, he became quite
alarmed. And it was at this time that the artful Buck sent a note by a
special messenger, offering to bring Billy home if his father would
forget all about the punishment he had threatened.

Of course he won his p