and I am so pleased , because I always thought you only needed a little help to make you a boy to be proud of . '' He looked up at her with a strange expression in his black eyes an expression of mingled pride and love and sorrow which she could not understand then but remembered afterward . `` I 'm afraid you 'll be disappointed , but I do try , '' he said , shutting the book with no sign of pleasure in the page that he usually liked so much to read over and talk about . `` Are you sick , dear ? '' asked Mrs. Jo , with her hand on his shoulder . `` My foot aches a little ; I guess I 'll go to bed . Good-night , mother , '' he added , and held the hand against his cheek a minute , then went away looking as if he had said good-bye to something dear . `` Poor Dan ! he takes Nat 's disgrace to heart sadly . He is a strange boy ; I wonder if I ever shall understand him thoroughly ? '' said Mrs. Jo to herself , as she thought over Dan 's late improvement with real satisfaction , yet felt that there was more in the lad than she had at first suspected . One of things which cut Nat most deeply was an act of Tommy 's , for after his loss Tommy had said to him , kindly , but firmly , `` I do n't wish to hurt you , Nat , but you see I ca n't afford to lose my money , so I guess we wo n't be partners any longer ; '' and with that Tommy rubbed out the sign , `` T. Bangs & Co. '' Nat had been very proud of the `` Co. , '' and had hunted eggs industriously , kept his accounts all straight , and had added a good sum to his income from the sale of his share of stock in trade . `` O Tom ! must you ? '' he said , feeling that his good name was gone for ever in the business world if this was done . `` I must , '' returned Tommy , firmly . `` Emil says that when one man ` bezzles -LRB- believe that 's the word it means to take money and cut away with it -RRB- the property of a firm , the other one sues him , or pitches into him somehow , and wo n't have any thing more to do with him . Now you have ` bezzled my property ; I sha n't sue you , and I sha n't pitch into you , but I must dissolve the partnership , because I ca n't trust you , and I do n't wish to fail . '' `` I ca n't make you believe me , and you wo n't take my money , though I 'd be thankful to give all my dollars if you 'd only say you do n't think I took your money . Do let me hunt for you , I wo n't ask any wages , but do it for nothing .
I know all the places , and I like it , '' pleaded XXXXX .
Co. Dan Emil Jo Nat Tom Tommy bezzles first minute