Mark Manning's Mission

rning to the hermit said, "Do you

man, "but beware of him!

Taylor, sullenly. "Uncle Anthony, I ask you once more to

it in vain, but if you will promise to leave this place and

e five d

ll get. Do you m

l, y

this man five doll

urer!" inquired T

funds out of which he

have you got of

nswer the question

be worth your while, Lyman,

u no oth

arching the cabin, or prowling round it, by repeating that I have no money

ould be relied upon implicitly, and that the hopes which he had built up of securin

are a pauper,

nswered Anthony. "I live here for next to nothing, an

oked around him

e living here," he said, "

lace in which you confess that you

d not otherwise notice

," he said, "and I will go. It

ce from his pocket a

ese?" he demanded, his ey

N

me ano

not mine

" said Anthony. "He doe

," said the nephew, convinced

, and he strode

n't treated me very generously, considering h

an?" said the hermit. "I hope n

e very kind. Boy,

Mann

hall be glad to have you write me if anything happens to hi

o the hermit

any news to interest you, he shall write. But don't calcula

your grave, uncle," s

s where a letter wi

e, New York," said

and old Anthony a

said the old man, "and a rela

, s

pillow. My nephew was my companion, but none of the gold belonged to him. I woke one morning t

" said Mark, warmly. "W

t exhausted. I resumed work on it, and three days later made a valuable find. Wit

oes not know t

y. But I have not told you all. I remained in California

ng-have you come to this poo

to find that she had married an adventurer a month previous. Two years later I heard of her death. Life ha

im no more, but set before him the milk and loa