Mr. Bobbsey
knew how grieved he would be if something like that happened to his
son.
"Yes, he pretended to run away," said Mr. Mason, "but he'll soon run
back again."
"How do you know?" Mr. Bobbsey wanted to know. "Did he ever run away
before?"
"No, he never did," admitted Mr. Mason, "but he'll have to run back
because he has nowhere to run to. He can't get anything to eat, he has
no money, and he can't find a place to sleep. Of course he'll come
back!
"And when he does come back," Mr. Mason went on, "I'll make him work
doubly hard to pay back that twenty dollars. I can't afford to lose
that much money."
"But it was an accident; a mistake that anyone might have made," said
Mr. Bobbsey again.
"Nonsense!" cried the other lumber man. "I'll make Frank Kennedy pay
for his mistake!"
"Perhaps the strange man did not mean to give him the Confederate
bill," went on Bert's father. "Some persons carry those old Southern
bills as souvenirs, or pocket-pieces, and this man might have paid his
out by mistake. I know that once happened to me with a piece of money.
He may come back and give you a good twenty dollar bill.
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