Harry Castlemon

“ CONCLUSION.
"NOW isn't he a daisy?" exclaimed Roy, who could scarcely have been more pleased if the wheel had belonged to himself. "Full nickeled, ball bearings, adjustable saddle, safety bar, Buffalo tool bag and lamp. Every thing complete, of course, for your Uncle Joe doesn't do things by halves. Now, Joe, you can ride and Art and I will go afoot."
"Say," cried Arthur, who had taken the card from Roy's hand. "What does this mean? 'There are two others like me in town?' There wasn't a bike in Mount Airy when we left." ”

“ And when Indian summer came, and a school-fellow showed him a string of muscalonge or pickerel he had caught in some isolated pond to which he had penetrated with the aid of his light draft canoe, Joe wished most heartily that Matt Coyle had not been such an adept at stealing things.
"I'll never see my canoe again," said he, with a sigh of resignation. "I can't say that I hope he will drown Matt, but I do hope he will duck him so many times and in such dangerous places that the next time he sees a canvas canoe he will run from it. What's become of him any way?" ”

“ The short Indian summer passed away all too quickly for the Mount Airy boys, the autumnal rains put a stop to wheeling, and finally Old Winter spread his mantle over the village and surrounding hills and took the lake and all the streams in his icy grasp. When the boys came out of their snug retreats they brought with them their sleds, skates, and toboggans. Tom Bigden was around as usual, but every one noticed that he did not take as deep an interest in things as he formerly did, or "shoot off his chin" quite so frequently. ”

“ I was glad of it, for if I had been in his place I should not have cared to camp in so wild a region with six thousand dollars of another man's money in my keeping. It made the boys a trifle nervous, and during the night one of them kept watch while the others slept. They broke, camp after eating breakfast by firelight, and hardly stopped to rest until the money had been handed over to the officers of the Mount Airy bank, who straightway telegraphed to the Irvington people the gratifying intelligence that their missing funds, which they had given up for lost, had been fished out of the river. ”

“ That's my blanket—the red one with a blue stripe on the end. Wow what's to be done?"
"There's something in that blanket, boys," said Joe, after he had taken a second look, "and it is also tied to the canoe. How came those things at the bottom of the river, and where's Matt Coyle?"
"And the money," added Roy.
"We can talk about it while we go back to camp and bring another chisel, and an ax to enlarge the hole so that we can get the canoe out, and a rope to haul him up with," said Arthur. "The sooner we get to work the sooner we may be able to settle some things. ”

“ He began running the very minute the roads would admit of it, and kept it up during the entire season, covering an astonishing number of miles, and saving valuable lives. He met some adventures, too; and what they were and how he came out of them he will tell you in the concluding volume of this series, which will be entitled: "The Steel Horse ”