Helping Himself

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 65


"Well he/she thought of, the Mr. Ford", and the Mr. Reynolds turned him to his
housewife for a replica.

"No", he/she answered to Mrs. Estabrook. "I hold my keys in pocket and me
still have there them."

Saying therefore, she produced four tied up keys to a ring.

"Then", continued Ford, "if Grant happens to have a key that the wish
the drawer of desk that would be the evidence against him is all right."

"Show me some keys that you can have, Grant" says the mediator.

Grant the push his/her hand in pocket and it unsheathed two keys. He looked
to them in amazement.

"One of them open my suitcase", he said. "The other one is a strange
key. I didn't know what I had him."

Ford smiled maliciously. "I/you/he/she allow us to see if it will open the desk
drawer", he said.

The party adjourned to the room of the housewife. The key had put in
the lock of the drawer of desk and it immediately opened him.

"I think there is anybody more to be said", says Willis Ford,
triumphantly.

Grant looked at the portrait of surprise and dismay.






I CAPITULATE XVIII

THE ENEMIES TRIUMPH OF CONCESSION





It is not too much for saying that Grant you/he/she was submerged by the
unexpected discovery, in pocket of a key that the has gone well
the drawer of housewife. He immediately saw how strong it did the evidence
against him, and he was still known to be innocent. The more anymore
painful thought was, that the Mr. Reynoldses would believe him/it to be
guilty.

In fact, the mediator started for the first time to think that Grant
you/he/she would possibly have produced to the temptation.

"Cannot you/he/she give account of the possession of that key?" he asked.

"No, gentleman", answered Grant, in painful embarrassment. "I have
you cause to use but a key, and that is the key to my suitcase."

"I think that you had occasion to use the other", sneered Ford.

"The Mr. Ford", Grant ritorguto, indignantly to which "you are determined
think of me guilty;  but I would not appreciate anything Your opinion. I should be
very sorry if the Mr. Reynolds had to think of me able this way
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