![]() ![]() ![]() George teaches Herbert French and German. Inside is a polylingual library, which serves as a source for Herbert's education. Once in Colorado, George buys a luxuriant manor from an artist who is returning to the East. Warner does not admit to his identity but manages to call off the robbery in time. George takes advantage of the foreknowledge and reveals Warner to be Jerry Lane before the robbery takes place. However, Herbert overhears the conversation and relates the information to George. After the travelers go to bed, Lane plans the robbery with his gang. Once there, he encourages them to take a stagecoach with other rich Easterners to an inn run by his cohorts. Warner claims to be a self-made man, and offers to travel with the two to Colorado. They also fall in with another disguised villain, who goes by the name Colonel Warner (who is in fact Jerry Lane, a famed highwayman). Along the way, they run into Eben, who has fallen to selling vegetables. George then heads to Colorado with Herbert to help him fight his consumption. Although Herbert comes forward to implicate the villain's character, he is sympathetic and does not press charges for his own attempted robbery. Both George and Herbert also come across the villain once again, this time accused of stealing from a jewelry store. Herbert understands the situation but makes no accusation. Also on the trip to Boston, Herbert runs into Eben, who has stolen money from his father and is going west. There is an attempted robbery of the entrusted money, but Herbert manages to fend off the attack. While looking about the city, he falls in with a villain who pretends to be a patron. Although Herbert is careful with the money, he is not so careful with his company. While there, Melville asks Herbert to cash a check for one hundred and fifty dollars while he is at the doctor's office. Next, George takes Herbert to Boston for a day-trip. Furthermore, George Melville uses his education in law to prove that Eben was the true thief in cross-examination. Although Herbert is taken before the judge, his previous good behavior convinces all involved that he is innocent. After going to Melville's hotel suite and asking him for Herbert's job (and being refused), he organizes a plot of false accusation to have Herbert arrested on charges of theft from the post office. When Eben hears about Herbert's windfall, he is outraged, feeling that he would be the better companion. Henry is extremely happy with this opportunity to care for his mother and readily agrees. He offers Herbert an extravagant amount weekly to engage him in outdoor activities to cure his illness. Herbert is at first dismayed, but then encounters his patron, George Melville, a young man who is incredibly wealthy (the amount of his fortune is never disclosed), who had trained to be a lawyer but was forced to abandon his practice due to consumption. Fired because of his own arrogance, he returns home seeking employment. Graham's son, Eben Graham, a fop/ spendthrift, returns from Boston where he had been a shop clerk. Graham is uncertain of how to run a post office, he offers to hire Herbert for a pittance to run things until he learns what must be done. Walsingham succeeds in his efforts and the post is given to Mr. Widow Carr is upset because Squire Walsingham is using his political influence to take the post away from the widow to put into the hands of his nephew, Ebenezer Graham, the local miser and shopkeeper. ![]() Hero Herbert Carr is the son of a war widow who had assumed her husband's place as postmaster of the small rural town in Waynesboro. ![]() Do and Dare or, A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune, New York: Hurst and Company, 1900 ![]()
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