Joe the Hotel Boy by Horatio Alger
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page 87 of 238 (36%)
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week is up."
The insults that Joe had received that day from Wilberforce Chaster rankled in his mind, and he determined to square accounts with the boarder if he possibly could. Towards evening he met a bell boy named Harry Ross who had also had trouble with Chaster, and the two talked the matter over. "We ought to get square," said Harry Ross. "I wish I could souse him with a pitcher of ice water." "I've got a plan," said Joe. Stopping at the hotel was a traveling doctor, who came to Riverside twice a year, for a stay of two weeks each time. He sold some patent medicines, and had in his room several skulls and also a skeleton strung on wires. "That doctor is away," said our hero. "I wonder if we can't smuggle the skulls and the skeleton into Mr. Chaster's room?" "Just the cheese!" cried the bell boy, enthusiastically. "And let us rub the bones with some of those matches that glow in the dark!" The plan was talked over, and watching their chance the two transferred the skeleton and the skulls to the apartment occupied by Wilberforce Chaster. Then they rubbed phosphorus on the bones, and hung them upon long strings, running over a doorway into the next room. |
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