tle fellow. He at once assumed the
position of an independent man, and merely stated his intentions to one
or two intimate friends, such as Bluenose, Laker, and old Jeph. As
these regarded his statement as the wild fancy of an enthusiastic boy in
the first gush of disappointment, they treated it with good-natured
raillery. So Tommy resolved, as he would have himself have expressed
it, "to shut up, and keep his own counsel."

When Guy told Lucy Burton that the man who had saved her life had gone
off thus suddenly, she burst into tears; but her tears had not flowed
long before she asked Guy the reason of his strange and abrupt
departure.

Of course Guy could not tell. He had been pledged to secrecy as to the
cause.

When Lucy Burton went to tell Amy Russell, she did so with a trembling
heart. For some time past she had suspected that Amy loved Bax and not
Guy, as she had at first mistakenly supposed. Knowing that if her
suspicions were true, the news would be terrible indeed to her friend,
she considerately went to her room and told her privately.

Amy turned deadly pale, stood speechless for a few seconds, and then
fainted in her friend's arms.

On recovering she confessed her love, but made Lucy solemnly pledge
herself to secrecy.

"No one shall ever know of this but yourself, dear Lucy," said Amy,
laying her head on her friend's bosom, and finding relief in tears.

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Time passed away, as time is wont to do, and it seemed as if Tommy Bogey
had forgotten to carry out his determination. From that day forward he
never referred to it, and the few friends to whom he had mentioned it
supposed that he had given up the idea altogether as impracticable.

They did not know the mettle that Tommy was made of. After maturely
considering the matter, he had made up his mind to delay carrying out
his plan until Bax should have time to write home and acquaint him with
his whereabouts. Meanwhile, he would set himself to make and save up
money by every means in his power, for he had sense enough to know that
a moneyless traveller must be a helpless creature.

Peekins was permanently received into Sandhill Cottage as
page-in-buttons, in which capacity he presented a miserably attenuated
figure, but gave great satisfaction. Tommy and he continued good
friends; the former devoting as much of his leisure time to the latter
as he could spare. He had