CHAPTER XVIII
TOM AND HIS FUN
"Got eighty dollars from you!" murmured Dick. "That's too bad!"
"It would be bad enough if I lost it fairly," answered the farm hand. "But I am sure they swindled me."
"Well, you ought not to gamble," put in Sam, who had listened to the talk with interest.
"I suppose that's true," mumbled Dan Murdock. "But they said I might win a pile. Oh, I was a big fool—I know it now, even if I didn't know it then. I wish I had stopped 'em from leaving."
"Why didn't you?"
"They went so sudden like—after they had my money. One of 'em took out his watch and said they'd miss the train, and away they started before you could say Jack Robinson! But there ain't no train this time o' day."
"It was a trick to get away," said Tom.
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