I don't know how to account for it,
any more than you do."
"What's the matter, now? Forgot something?" asked Dan, as his brother
suddenly stopped and looked toward the landing, as if he had half a
mind to turn around and go back there.
Yes, David had forgotten something, and it was very important too, he
thought. He knew that Dan was always on the lookout for a chance to
make a penny without work, and David was afraid that he might be
tempted to repeat the trick which he and his father had played upon
Don and Bert with so much success.
It would be a very easy matter for Dan to make up some plausible
story to tell the grocer, and perhaps on the strength of his
brother's almost unlimited credit, he might be able to obtain a few
little articles of which he stood in need. David had never thought to
put Silas on his guard.
"I'll hold them things fur you, if you want to run back thar," said
Dan, reaching out his hand for the basket.
"No, I'll let it go until the next time I come down," answered David.
"A day or two will not make much difference."
"Whar did you get them ten dollars, any how?" asked Dan, as the two
once more turned their faces homeward.
"That's the money you tried to cheat me out of," replied his brother.
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