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OR a while the three boys walked along in silence, Loren and Ralph being too amazed to speak, and Tom pluming himself on having done something that would, in the end, bring Joe Wayring and some of the other boys he disliked no end of trouble. The fact that it might bring trouble to himself as well, never once entered his mind. Ralph was the first to speak.

"I wouldn't have had that thing happen for any thing," said he.

"What thing?" demanded Tom.

"Why, that interview with the squatter. I could see, by the expression on his face, that you put the very mischief into his head."

"And that was just what I meant to do," replied Tom, who laughed heartily when he saw how troubled his cousins were over what