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238, did not refer to it, until Ned, anxious to know how his parent felt, remarked:

"I guess I'm not much of a business man, dad."

"Why so?" inquired Mr. Wilding with a smile.

"Why, I lost my hundred dollars the first thing."

"Not exactly lost it, Ned, though you haven't got it. You can consider that you bought a hundred dollars worth of experience, and I think you got quite a lot for your money."

"I certainly did," replied Ned with conviction.

"By the way," his father went on. "I got a telegram from your aunt. Her niece in Chicago is not as ill as was at first believed, and Mrs. Kenfield is coming home soon. She wants you boys to stay and visit her. Your uncle will be home from Europe in another week."

"I think I'd rather go home for a while," answered Ned.

"Well, everything came out all right," remarked Bart as he and Fenn sat together looking from the car windows as they approached their destination.

"Yes, everything is right but Frank," replied Fenn. "He's been acting strangely lately," and