Baker
looked them over.
"Are they satisfactory?" inquired the colonel anxiously.
"Yes," answered Baker.
"Now understand, there is to be no gossip about this affair?" insisted
the magnate.
"I shan't talk," said Baker.
"And I am to have that express package?"
"Give it to him, Stirling."
Bart took the mysterious unclaimed package from his pocket. Colonel
Harrington seized it with a satisfied cry.
"You have wronged myself and others deeply, Colonel Harrington," said
Baker in a grave, reproachful tone, "but you have made some amends. I
forgive you, and I hope you will be a better man."
CHAPTER XXX
"STILL HIGHER!"
Bart Stirling was a proud and happy boy as he stood at the door of the
express office looking down the tracks of the B. & M.
A new spur was being constructed, and it divided to semi-inclose a
substantial foundation which was the start of the new and commodious
express office. The blue sky, smiling down on the busy scene, was no
more serene than the prospect which the future seemed to offer for the
successful young express agent.
With his last reckless crime Lem Wacker had ceased to be a disturbing
element at Pleasantville.
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