"I'll call as soon as
I get back."
"Just stay a little while," urged Doc Linyard. "Tom's got something
to say to you."
"Doc tells me your father was a soldier in the late war?" went on Tom
Clover.
"Yes, sir."
"Did he once live in Brooklyn?"
"Yes, sir. But--" and Richard paused, while his heart beat rapidly.
"And was his first name John?"
"Yes, sir--John Cartwell Dare. But why do you ask, Mr. Clover? Is it
possible that you knew him?"
Tom Clover raised himself up to a sitting position.
"Know him?" he cried. "We were bosom companions for eighteen months!
Why, I caught him in my arms the day he was shot!"
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE FIRM OF MASSANET AND DARE.
Tom Clover's unexpected statement was a revelation to Richard, and
subsequent questioning convinced the boy that all that Doc Linyard's
brother-in-law had said concerning the acquaintance with his father
was perfectly true.
It was a fact that Clover had been drafted in Boston, but during the
second year of his service his time had expired, and then he had
enlisted in a Brooklyn regiment, and become a member of the same company
to which Mr. Dare belonged.
"It seems too good to be true," cried Richard finally. "Perhaps Doc
has already told you of the pension we are trying to get.
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