Once when he was a boy of sixteen, Seth in com- pany with two other boys ran away from home.
After the disappearance of Seth, Virginia Rich- mond walked up and down the floor of her home filled with vague alarms.
And when, at the end of the week, Seth returned, a little weary and with coal soot in his ears and about his eyes, she again found herself unable to reprove him.
On a summer evening Seth Richmond went to the New Willard House to visit his friend, George Willard.
On the stairway Seth stopped and listened to the voices of the men below.
The workmen all looked up; Jim Salt, a burly, red-haired man known as Sandy Jim, paused from his planing, and Adam said to Seth, with a sharp glance of surprise, "What!
"Aye, sure," said Seth, with answering surprise; "what's awanting to't?"
A loud roar of laughter from the other three workmen made Seth look round confusedly.
The laughter burst out afresh as Seth clapped his hands to his head, and coloured over brow and crown.
"We'll hang up th' door at fur end o' th' shop an' write on't 'Seth Bede, the Methody, his work.' Here, Jim, lend's hould o' th' red pot."
Besides, I'm telling this.--Next thing, Seth yells at me, 'Goin' to stay here all night?'
"Seth kicked at first, but I boosted her into the cab and made her sit up beside me--"
"And I suppose Seth was busy running the engine," Mrs.
"'She's come to do light housekeeping for you,' Seth grinned.
On my agreeing to finance the adventure, he promised to call on me at my hotel next morning with the letters of Seth Manners and the railroad, and conclude arrangements.
