She couldn't
have really cared so very much for him.
"Do you know, Auntie Sue, I have seen so many cases like this one.
I have been glad, many times, that I never married. And then, again,
sometimes, I have seen homes that have made me sorry I never took the
chance. I am glad you saved the boy, Auntie Sue: I am mighty glad."
"You have made me very happy, Homer," Auntie Sue returned. "But are you
sure you can fix it about that reward? The man who is coming to claim it
will make trouble, won't he, if he is not paid, somehow?"
"Yes, I expect he would," returned the president, thoughtfully. "And my
directors might have something to say. And there are the Burns people
and the Bankers' Association and all. Hum-m-m!"
Homer T. Ward considered the matter a few moments, then he laughed.
"I'll tell you what we will do, Auntie Sue; we will let Brian Kent pay
the reward himself. That would be fair, wouldn't it?"
Auntie Sue was sure that Brian would agree that it was a fair enough
arrangement; but she did not see how it was to be managed.
Then her old pupil explained that he would pay the reward-money to the
man who was coming to claim it, and thus satisfy him, and that the bank
would hold the amount as a part of the debt which Brian was expected to
pay.
Auntie Sue never knew that President Ward himself paid to the bank
the full amount of the money stolen by Brian Kent in addition to the
reward-money which he personally paid to Jap Taylor, in order to quiet
him, and thus saved Brian from the publicity that surely would have
followed any other course.
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