The Tin Box

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ilip thinks I am a poor, working bo

had to work when I was a boy, and I've done

id Harry. "I only wi

love lost betwee

better than I suit him. He's

lip ain't very glad to see me. It's different with the colonel

y what he expected, from what h

easant for you," said he

"I was hoping Lucindy would be like her mother, and I c

d destitute, and it must be a trial for

d, impulsively,

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nately," continued Harry, with a sigh, "we d

an looked

tead of Philip," he said. "You'

mothers in the world,

d mothers. Supposing I was able to pay my share of the e

elp feeling interest in the homely, but good-heart

tute, didn't you?" asked

s,

way for the few years that remain to me. My niece might treat me d

mother about your c

t rid of me, and she'll be saying something soon. Like as not, she'll offer to pay

got a nice room that we've kept for a spare c

, cheerfully. "If Philip won't have me for a great-uncle, I'll have

try to treat you as a nep

he was my nephew. Somehow, that stuck-up Philip, with h

e of advantage to them to have a boarder, as it

ch as I used to get--four dollars a week--it'll make us all right, for I'm

ospect that opened up of making up for his lost wages. It wa