In vain he pleaded with Halloran to release him, offering every kind of
inducement, but the man was inexorable.
Your Cousin Kendale will pay me twice as much for detaining you here,"
he answered with a boisterous laugh, adding:
"Besides, I have a grudge against you of many years' standing, Lester
Armstrong, which this affair is wiping out pretty effectively."
"I was not aware that I had ever seen you before," replied Lester.
"Permit me to refresh your memory," exclaimed the other grimly. "When
you were a boy of about fourteen years you attended the public school on
Canal Street."
"Yes," said Lester, still mystified.
"At that time," went on Halloran, "the school was unusually crowded,
owing to the enforcement of the law that the children of the
neighborhood must attend school, thus bringing in all the urchins of
the poor thereabouts; you surely remember that?"
"It seems to me I have a faint recollection of some such circumstance,"
replied Lester, eying the man who stood over him, his dark, scowling
face growing more foreboding with each word he uttered.
Pages:
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205