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DEAN DUNHAM
DEAN DUNHAM
OR
The Waterford Mystery
BY
HORATIO ALGER, Jr.
AUTHOR OF
"THE YOUNG ACROBAT," "THE ERIE TRAIN BOY,"
"ADVENTURES OF A TELEGRAPH BOY," ETC.
PHILADELPHIA
DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER
610 South Washington Square
Copyright, 1888
By Frank A. Munsey
Copyright, 1891
By United States Book Co.
Copyright, 1900
By Street and Smith
Dean Dunham
DEAN DUNHAM;
OR,
THE WATERFORD MYSTERY.
CHAPTER I.
ADIN DUNHAM SURPRISES HIS WIFE.
"I've been looking forward to this day for weeks,Sarah," said Adin Dunham, as he rose from the breakfast-tableon a certain Wednesday morning in the earlypart of June.
"Why, father, what do you mean?" asked Mrs.Dunham curiously.
"Because to-day I am to receive a thousand dollars—athousand dollars in hard cash," answered herhusband in a tone of exultation.
"Well, I declare!" ejaculated his wife in amazement."Who on earth is going to give you a thousanddollars?"
"No one is going to give it to me; it's my own."
"How strangely you do talk, Adin Dunham! Youain't out of your mind, be you?"
"Not as I know of," answered her husband withan amused smile.
"Is it really true that somebody is going to payyou a thousand dollars?"