The Boy Trapper - Harry Castlemon - Bog

"Don't worry about it, mother. It is nothing we can help." "It seems to me that I might have helped it. If I had gone to General Gordon when your father first spoke about that barrel with the eighty thousand dollars in it, and told him the whole story, things might have turned out differently. But in spite of all he said, I did not suppose that he was in earnest."